Nov 28 - Billionaire's Life Search

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Cassini spacecraft image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, with glowing jets - aka geysers - emanating from its south polar region. Image via NASA/JPL/SSI. A billionaire's plan to search for life on Enceladus Russian entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner wants to send a probe back to Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus. NASA wants to help him. Read more. Huge 4,000-year-old termite mounds visible via satellite It's a vast array of regularly-spaced, still-inhabited termite mounds in northeastern Brazil, covering an area the size of Great Britain. Read more. Meet 2018's brightest comet Comet 46P/Wirtanen isn't bright in any absolute sense. It requires a telescope or binoculars - and a truly dark sky - to be seen. Will it reach visibility to the eye alone? Here's what we know so far. Read more.  Astronomers glimpse Comet Wirtanen's telltale spin Comet 46P/Wirtanen can be seen rotating in this new image from Tony Farnham and colleagues. Read more. This comet is due to pass closest to our sun and Earth next month.

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Tonight and tomorrow … Moon and Regulus late night to dawn On November 28, the moon is near the bright star Regulus, Heart of the Lion in Leo. Day by day, before dawn, watch for the waning moon to sink toward Venus and to meet up with this dazzling world in early December. Read more.

Venus brightest late November and early December Venus (and crescent Venus inset) in the predawn Tucson, Arizona, sky on November 27, 2018. Eliot Herman wrote: "Venus is currently about as bright as it will be for this cycle, glowing in the eastern morning sky. Venus is amazingly bright! Crescent Venus inset captured with a Questar telescope, 50 mm lens and a Nikon D850." 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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