June 30 - Today is Asteroid Day

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Those streaks are asteroid trails, caught in front of the distant galaxies in the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The effect of parallax causes the asteroid trails to appear curved. Image via ESA. Read more.

When asteroids photobomb galaxies Want to spend your days looking at awesome photos of distant galaxy clusters, and possibly discovering an asteroid? Check out this new citizen-science project called Hubble Asteroid Hunter. Learn how to participate. Today is International Asteroid Day What the day is about and how to participate. Today in science: Tunguska explosion We celebrate Asteroid Day on June 30 because it's the anniversary of a 1908 explosion over Siberia that killed reindeer and flattened trees. Here's the latest on what we know. NASA has a plan to knock an asteroid off course DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. NASA is planning the DART mission for launch in 2021. It'll visit a double asteroid - Didymos and its tiny moon - and crash into the moon in an attempt to change its orbit. Read more. ESA will head for the double asteroid, too Following NASA's DART mission, if all goes as planned, a European Space Agency mission called Hera will also visit Didymos and its moon, to gather vital, detailed information. Watch a video, where astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May explains more. No, asteroid 2006 QV89 won't strike Earth in September  There've been scare stories online this month about asteroid 2006 QV89, a space rock that'll pass closest to Earth on September 9, 2019. Should you be scared? No. Read more.

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Before sunrise … See moon, Aldebaran, Venus As it wanes - preparing to block the sun on July 2 in a solar eclipse visible from South America - the moon will sweep past Venus. Read more about the eclipse.

South American solar eclipse on July 2 A total eclipse of the sun is coming to the South American countries of Chile and Argentina in the late afternoon hours of July 2, 2019. Read more. The photo above - by Beverley Sinclair - shows the solar eclipse that crossed the U.S. on August 21, 2017. The photo highlights what's called the diamond ring effect.  Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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