Apr 26 - What Caused the Great Dying?

April 26 What Caused the Great Dying? by:

What caused the Great Dying? New evidence that volcanic eruptions caused the Great Dying, a mass extinction 252 million years ago that killed off 95% of life on Earth. Read more. TESS discovers its 1st Earth-sized exoplanet Launched in 2018, TESS is NASA's new space-based exoplanet hunter. Now it's found its 1st Earth-sized world orbiting a nearby star. The discovery bodes well, scientists say, for finding more similar worlds in the near future. Read more. What we're reading   Greenland is falling apart From The Atlantic … Since 1972, the ice sheet has lost 11 quadrillion pounds of water and about half that ice melted in the past 8 years. Read more.

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Tonight … Find Hercules between 2 bright stars The bright stars Arcturus and Vega can help you find the constellation Hercules and its famous Keystone asterism. Read more.

Moon and Jupiter beam on a lake View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Wonderful image of the moon and Jupiter (lower left) from our friend Steven Sweet of Lunar 101-Moon Book. See Jupiter's separate, small beam on the lake? Steven is in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He caught this image on April 23. Thank you, Steven! Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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