Oct 22 - Watch for Earth's Shadow

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Nancy Ricigliano from Massapegua, New York caught the moon rising ahead of Earth's shadow last night. She wrote: "I went out to see where the moon will be rising for the full Hunter's Moon on Wednesday. I was able to capture the Earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus!" Good morning!   Watch for Earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus Look east after sunset - or west before sunrise - for Earth's shadow. It's a deep blue-grey band, curved as Earth is curved, ascending or descending opposite the sun. The Belt of Venus is a subtle pink strip above the shadow. Read more. All you need to know: 2018's Hunter's Moon The coming full moon - Hunter's Moon for the Northern Hemisphere - is October 24. Will it be bigger, brighter, more colorful? All you need to know here. Read more. Our Milky Way almost collided with another galaxy Astronomers found a snail-shaped substructure of stars in our larger Milky Way galaxy. It indicates the Milky Way is still enduring the effects of a near-collision that set millions of stars moving like ripples on a pond. Read more.

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Watch for Earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus In this photo by Jörgen Norrland Andersson in Sweden, Earth's shadow is the swath of dark blue above the line of the horizon. The Belt of Venus is pink, above the shadow.

Big Dipper over Grand Gulch, Utah Marc Toso of the website AncientSkys caught Big Dipper over a pool in the Utah desert, from a canyon littered with the rock art and ruins of Ancestral Puebloans. 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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