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Aurora Australis. The Moon is a thin crescent rising before dawn, leaving most of the night beautifully dark for stargazing.
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Calaruga Shark Media. Welcome to Space news and weather today.
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Mars and Uranus have an exceptionally close encounter tonight, just
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a tenth of a degree apart. That's close enough to
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see both in the same telescope eyepiece. Mars is the
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bright reddish one pale blue green. Uranus glows faintly beside it.
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The Moon is a thin crescent rising before dawn, leaving
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most of the night beautifully dark for stargazing. Three brilliant
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stars form the summer triangle overhead. Vega, the brightest, is
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only twenty five light years away. Deneb, though it looks similar,
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is actually twenty sixteen hundred light years distant, vastly more luminous.
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Aurora australis one of the many asteroids in our neighborhood.
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Five two three, eight oh eight two thousand and seven
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mL twenty four swings by today at nearly half a
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mile wide. It'll pass about nine lunar distances from Earth.
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No threat, just a cosmic passer by. Quick solar update.
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The Sun is quite active, with numerous sunspot groups visible.
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That means a moderate chance of northern lights tonight for
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those in northern latitudes. Look north after dark if skies
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are clear. NASA's space weather trackers also note a M
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two point three class solar flare occurred on the sun.
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Chesterrie House AI helped gather today's update from NASA and
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spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you
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