March 22 - Super-Fast Pulsar

March 22 Super-Fast Pulsar by:

Click here to visit EarthSky Community Photos for many great pics of this week's equinox sun and full moon. Astronomers clock a super-fast pulsar The runaway pulsar escaped the blast wave of the supernova that formed it, astronomers say, and is hurtling through space so fast it could travel from Earth to the moon in just 6 minutes. Read more and watch video. How aspen leaves could save Mars rovers Aspen trees - fondly called Quakies by some - have trembling, quivering leaves. Now those leaves have inspired an energy-harvesting mechanism that might rescue dust-laden rovers on Mars. Read more. Do you have a magnetic compass in your head? New evidence suggests that humans have a magnetic sense that lets our brain detect and respond to Earth's magnetic field. Read more.

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See the zodiacal light The weeks around an equinox are the best time to look for it. This year, Mike Lewinski in Tres Piedras, New Mexico, caught the zodiacal light after sunset as early as January! Read more.

Planets in perspective View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Morning planets in front of the Milky Way identifying the ecliptic and the galactic plane. Photographer Padraic Koen took this photo in Strathalbyn, South Australia, on the morning of March 14.  Thank you, Padraic! Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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