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That yellow orange kind of glow is going to be mars, then an extra bonuses if you even go further over just a little bit left, youre going to see the this beautiful, amazing object. this globular cluster called m 35 right in the constellation of gemini. but here is where its going to get difficult. youre going to need those binoculars to see your in us because its going to be very faint, and its hardly ever visible to the naked eye. so if youve got those binoculars the way that you will know tha...

Could, you know, launches spacecraft and kind of knock it out of the way so again, it gives astronomers great opportunities to take a look see what these things are made of, and quite a spectacle if you were up watching the live cast of it last night, all right, well, thats good news is that even if a city killer comes close, we got a plan. all right, so mercury plan. venus mars, jupiter, uranus lining up my gonna need an expensive telescope or can i just stand outside and see this? so if you ha...

All this. we are joined by janet ivy. she is a ceo of janets planets and the president of explore mars. always great to see you, janet. good morning to you. all right, so the city killer didnt kill anybody. so were in good hands. tell us and why this this event was is so rare and then asteroid of this size is actually the unusual part, right? it is and it as you said, it usually happens once every decade. and this happened . you know it passed easily between the earth and the moon was about 100,...

Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon.

An asteroid will pass within 100,000 miles of Earth, which is around half the distance between Earth and the moon.

An astrobiologist from the University of Tokyo is proposing that the search for life beyond Earth be expanded to the study of space dust. According to Totani, studying space dust could offer a new approach to the search for extraterrestrial life.

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Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon.

Researchers looked through almost 40-year-old data from the NASA Voyager 2 mission and found something unexpected.

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