Feb 16 - Top Stories This Week

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Help EarthSky keep going ... we NEED your help! Hello, friends of the Earth and sky! We're on Day Two of our once-yearly crowd-funding campaign. Can you help? Click here to donate and learn more. Simulation of colliding exoplanets via Zoe Leinhardt/Thomas Denman/University of Bristol. A tale of 2 colliding exoplanets Astronomers have new evidence for a collision between 2 nearly Earth-sized planets in the distant solar system Kepler-107. Read more. See China's Chang'e 4 on moon's far side China's Chang'e 4 lander has produced fantastic, 1st-time surface views of the far side of the moon. Now a NASA orbiter has caught images of the landing site. See images. Another huge impact crater under Greenland ice? A glaciologist has discovered a possible 2nd impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. Read more and watch a video. More top stories Stargazing destinations: Yellowknife Flying squirrels go pink in ultraviolet Just for fun: Tour alien worlds From Chelyabinsk to Cuba: The meteor connection Today in science: Spacecraft destroys a sundog 10 reasons we fall in love New Hubble images show storms on Uranus and Neptune

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Watch for Venus and Saturn this weekend Brilliant Venus and much-fainter Saturn will soon be in conjunction in the east before sunup. Watch for them Sunday or Monday morning! They're very noticeable because Venus is so bright. Read more.

See it! Photos of comet Iwamoto EarthSky community photos of a fast-moving, faint comet that came nearest to Earth - 28 million miles away - this week. This one was captured when the comet was brightest and closest to Earth on the morning of February 12 - from Indian Fields, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia - by Barry Burgess. Thank you, Barry. See more photos. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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