Saturday, June 8, 2019

June 8 - Top Stories This Week

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The young moon returned to the evening sky this week. Maybe you saw it? June 4 photo by Heidi Gabbert in San Jose, California. 
June guide to the bright planets
June 2019 is Jupiter's month. We'll go between Jupiter and the sun on June 10, and the planet is now bright all night in our sky. How to spot it and the other bright planets this month.
Did supernova blasts prompt humans to walk upright?
A new study focuses on a series of supernovae early in Earth's history.
Mud ball meteorites rain down in Costa Rica  
One punched a hole in a doghouse, narrowly missing a sleeping dog. Scientists are happy!

Video: Perpetual Ocean

Don't miss this beautiful video, from NASA.
More top stories

June 8 is World Oceans Day

Lake Baikal: Earth's deepest and oldest lake

View from space: North America's deepest lake

Why human-sized beavers went extinct

Noctilucent clouds shining in Mars' sky

Find the Summer Triangle
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Tonight and tomorrow … Moon in Leo the Lion
Use tonight's moon to locate the bright star Regulus. Notice it's part of a backwards question mark pattern of stars. This pattern represents Leo's head and shoulders. Read more.

Milky Way and Jupiter over Utah

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Eli Frisbie created this composite image from photos gathered on June 6, in Eagle Mountain, Utah. He wrote: "The Milky Way shines over a country road ... The bright "star" to the right of the Milky Way is the planet Jupiter. The slightly less-bright star to the upper left is the planet Saturn." Thank you, Eli!
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