Oct 20 - Top Stories This Week

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Good morning! Here’s a round-up of the week’s top stories.  Bees stopped buzzing during total solar eclipse "It was like ‘lights out’ at summer camp." When white dwarf meets brown dwarf, pow! Turns out, a nova observed in 1670 was a collision between a white dwarf star and less massive brown dwarf. Asteroid 2018 EB has a moon Astronomers found a moon when 2018 EB swept closest to Earth on October 7. Asteroid 2018 EB and its moon. Image via NASA.   EarthSky's meteor shower guide It’s meteor season! New technology may help solve mystery of life's origins Planet Simulator investigates how life on Earth began. Report calls for NASA to ramp up search for alien biosignatures Not just intelligent life - all forms of life, including microbes. What makes giant soldier ants? New research on why ants come in such wildly different sizes. How do dogs process words? What happens in your dog's brain when it hears you say squirrel? Eddie, a dog in the study, poses in the fMRI scanner with 2 toys used in the experiments, Monkey and Piggy. Image via Gregory Berns.

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Watch for Orionid meteors this weekend Orionid meteors radiate from a point in the constellation Orion the Hunter. Just know that you don't have to identify this radiant point to see the meteors. There's only a small window for meteor-watching tonight, after moonset, shortly before Sunday's dawn. Read more.

Tonight is International Observe the Moon Night Man and moonset from Martin Marthadinata in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Moon-lovers, look up tonight! And click in to find events near you. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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