Saturday, November 3, 2018

Nov 3 - Top Stories This Week

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Good morning! Here's the round-up of some of this week's top stories

NOAA issues 2018-19 winter weather outlook for US
Most of the United States is likely to be warmer-than-average this winter.
Did scientists confirm Earth's dust cloud satellites?
Have Kordylewski clouds - 2 clusters of dust, orbiting at about moon's distance - been confirmed?
Brightest comet in the night sky
Comet 46P/Wirtanen is getting brighter and might reach visibility to the eye alone before the end of 2018.
Check out these 2 rectangular icebergs!
Both weirdly perfectly rectangles, both captured on the same day.

Photo taken during Operation IceBridge flight over northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16, 2018. Image via NASA/Jeremy Harbeck. See the 2nd iceberg here.
More top stories

November guide to the bright planets

Large and Small Magellanic Clouds collided!

Taurid fireballs this weekend?

How 600,000 pounds of dead salmon nourished Alaskan trees

Bold new plan announced to explore alien ocean worlds

5 weird ocean phenomena

Tricks that animals play

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Watch for the waning moon and Venus
Venus is the brightest planet, so you can see it in the sunrise glare. It only entered the morning sky - passing between us and the sun - on October 26. So in early November, Venus is still extremely low in the eastern sky just before sunrise. It's very near the sunrise point. Read more.
Watch for Venus
Brett Joseph captured Venus exceedingly low in the east - near the sunrise point, in a sky washed with bright twilight - on October 31, 2018. Way to go, Brett!
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