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The Moon is glowing orange in the sky and everyone is asking the same thing - heres all you need to know about the Thunder Moon Anyone gazing up to the heavens in the UK right now would be forgiven for doing a double take The moon rises over the BT Tower in central London. The July full moon, otherwise known as the Thunder Moon, is synonymous with summer storms. Subscribe today to get the latest headlines straight to your inbox with our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, pleas...

Magnificent Magnets The Discovery Center’s newest exhibit, Magnificent Magnets, opened to the public on Saturday, April 17 and will be on display through Saturday, July 3 at the Discovery Center, located at 701 NE Sanchez Avenue. The exhibit is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10am-4pm. The new exhibit encourages kids to explore and tinker with the science of magnetism though a fun comic book themed exhibit. Participants will learn how magnets are used both in everyday life and in cuttin...

The Discovery Center’s newest exhibit, Magnificent Magnets, opened to the public on Saturday, April 17 and will be on display through Saturday, July 3 at the Discovery Center, located at 701 NE Sanchez Avenue. The exhibit is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10am-4pm. The new exhibit encourages kids to explore and tinker with the science of magnetism though a fun comic book themed exhibit. Participants will learn how magnets are used both in everyday life and in cutting-edge experimentati...

03 May 2021, 08:05 pm The Eta Aquarids is coming, and would peak on May 6, Thursday, for people to watch in the lovely night sky, as brought by one of the most popular cosmic objects, Halleys Comet. That particular comet may not show itself until 2061, but it has left behind a "cosmic litter" that would debut a spectacular show of lights from the skies. (Photo : Screenshot from: Unsplash Official Website) This has been the yearly tradition and is usually showing its cosmic lights display during...

    Recent research has revealed that Venus might have looked like Earth for three billion years, with vast oceans that could have been friendly to life leading to recent speculation that it may have been the first life-bearing planet. A conjecture spurred by the announcement in September of 2020 by an international group of researchers reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, that there may be a whiff of life in the famously inhospitable planet’s atmosphere in the form of traces of phosph...

  Astronomers have recently speculated that our nearest neighbor, Venus, may have been he first habitable planet in the Solar System — “a place where life was just as likely to arise as it was on Earth,” says Darby Dyar, a planetary scientist at Mount Holyoke College with NASA’s Solar System Exploration team. Coming off its fifth encounter with the Sun in 2020, the NASA’s Parker Solar Probe headed toward Venus, where on July 11, the spacecraft performed its first outbound flyby of Ve...

NASAs lucky charm for a successful mission? Peanuts TODAY 2/23/2021 © Provided by TODAY Peanuts are popular at baseball games and bars, but did you know theyre also a mainstay at NASA? Last Thursday, as engineers and scientists watched and waited breathlessly as the Perseverance rover hurdled toward Mars in a fiery landing, they did so next to bags and jars of "good-luck peanuts." © Damian Dovarganes Rob Manning (Damian Dovarganes / AP) On the day of the rovers landing on the red planet,...

Story highlights Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021 The largest asteroid to fly past the Earth in 2021 is set to make a close approach to the planet on March 21. Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021. Based on its brightness and the way it reflects light, 2001 FO32 is approximately between 0.767 to 1.714 kilometres in di...

  Welcome to this week’s fix of news of space and science –a random journey from Planet Earth through the Cosmos– that has the capacity to provide clues to our existence and add a much needed cosmic perspective in our current epoch. The Galaxy Report is also available here as a twice-weekly newsletter that includes exclusive feature stories. Could game theory help discover intelligent alien life? –-New research from The University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to coop...

NASA says looking at tomorrow’s moon poses no danger to your sight and says that binoculars or telescopes are not necessary. Astronomers recommend turning your flash off to take a good picture of the Wolf Moon and set your phone camera’s ISO sensitivity to as low as it can go. The federal space agency says the Wolf Moon goes by many names, including the Candles Moon, Shakambhari Purnima, Paush Purnima, the Thaipusam festival Moon, the Ananda Pagoda Festival Moon, Duruthu Poya, and the Full ...