The red dot indicates a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia on July 14, 2019, and the largest orange dot indicates the 6.6-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Australia, also today. Map via USGS. Read more.
Today's 2 strong earthquakes - the first a 6.6-magnitude off the western coast of Australia and the second a 7.3-magnitude in Indonesia - happened along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Read more.
The small, fast-moving New Horizons spacecraft is likely to be the only Pluto mission in the lifetimes of many of us. It changed forever the way we on Earth perceive this outermost world and its moons. Read more.
This is Pluto's yearly opposition. Telescope users spot it by locating its star field and watching nightly for the object that moves. Details and photos here. If you want to see it, you'll need at least an 8-inch telescope; plus here's a sky-ready, black-and-white chart showing its location.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Dr Ski in Valencia, Philippines, captured this image on July 10. It's Saturn, Jupiter, and Sagittarius B2, the molecular cloud near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This cloud is the "steam" you see coming out of the famous Teapot pattern in the constellation Sagittarius. He wrote: "I indicated the time it would take to reach those destinations, if you could travel at the speed of light!" By the way, the moon will soon pass Saturn in our sky.
