July 20 - Top Stories This Week

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Here’s Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin with the LR-3, a reflecting array designed to bounce laser beams fired from Earth back to Earth. This experiment, which helped refine our knowledge of the moon’s distance and the shape of its orbit around Earth, is still returning data from the moon. See more images. Image via NASA.

Fifty years ago today: 1st footsteps on the moon The story in pictures. Eclipses make animals do strange things How do solar and lunar eclipses influence animal behavior? What will Earth’s next supercontinent look like? Here are 4 possible scenarios. More top stories Planting a flag on the moon Dragonfly aims for Saturn's moon Titan Enceladus' ocean just the right age to support life Big earthquakes in Australia and Indonesia Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic Record wettest 12 months for US, again The eclipse that marked the start of the Iroquois Confederacy

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Tonight … Deneb and Cygnus the Swan The star Deneb in its constellation Cygnus the Swan are part of the famous Summer Triangle. Read more.

Morning moon Photographer Lee Capps captured this week's morning moon from North Carolina. Thanks, Lee!  Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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