Sept 18 - Moon Loop!

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Artist's concept via SpaceX Good morning!   Elon Musk and SpaceX announce 1st tourist for 'moon loop' Musk said Monday from SpaceX headquarters in California that it will send Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa - with a group of artists - on a loop around the moon and back to Earth in 2023. "It's dangerous," Musk said. Read more. TESS planet-hunter achieves 1st light TESS is the successor to the Kepler mission, which single-handedly discovered a big fraction of all known exoplanets. NASA released TESS' 1st-light image on Monday. Ahoy! New worlds ahead! Read more. This week … Moon sweeps near Saturn and Mars As darkness falls, let the moon guide you to 2 bright and beautiful planets. Read more. 1st-ever portrait of Earth and moon from a distance On today's date in 1977, as it headed toward the outer solar system, Voyager 1 looked back and acquired this stunning image of our Earth and moon. Read about the Voyagers. Voyager 1 took the photo on September 18, 1977, when it was 7 million miles (12 million km) from Earth. It was a stunning revelation. Read more.

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This week … Moon sweeps near Saturn and Mars Tuesday night's moon is waxing toward full and is between these 2 bright planets. Watch for them! Read more.

Dry ice frosts a Mars crater The white markings here are bright residual carbon dioxide ice deposits - dry ice - on the south-facing rim of a pit crater on Mars. Image via ESA's ExoMars orbiter. Read more. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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