Eclipses
Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon 2022: How to Watch
Finally a good reason to stay up on Sunday night: A total lunar eclipse. Lunar watchers throughout the United States can experience some heavenly wonder as Earth’s shadow covers the moon during prime viewing hours the night of May 15. Those on the East Coast can watch our natural satellite start to turn an eerie […]
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens. Instead, the wreckage is the work of NASA, a component called a backshell that detached during the landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of the red planet in February 2021. “There’s definitely a […]
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Miss Friday’s Lunar Eclipse? Here’s What it Looked Like.
If you slept through the latest partial lunar eclipse, we cannot fault you. The sun set at 4:35 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, and a full, bright moon rose above New York City into mostly clear skies and a warm night. But a storm and plunging temperatures may have discouraged many viewers from rising at […]
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Thursday and Friday’s Partial Lunar Eclipse Was the Longest in 580 Years
When the moon shines in night skies on Thursday into the early hours of Friday morning, you will get a chance to witness a celestial phenomenon not seen since the 1440s. A partial lunar eclipse, but really a nearly total lunar eclipse, is set to dazzle sky watchers and night owls early Friday morning (or […]
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