A space sensation will occur this weekend but down on Earth, no one will be able to view it. A “black moon” is set to rise Saturday, which Hunter Miller, an astronomy educator at the Adler Planetarium, said is most akin to its opposite — a “blue moon.” “This is just something that kind of happens by chance every couple …
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Stargazers have a chance to get a good look at the Milky Way and summer constellations in the night skies this August. Some of the planets are beginning to reappear – and one of the best meteor showers of the year, the Perseids, will be on display. “August is really about the Perseids and getting out there. So that’s primo,” …
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As the International Space Station passes over India this weekend, many of those looking up to catch a glimpse as it goes by will be excited schoolchildren, who, like millions across the country, have their eyes, hopes and dreams pinned on astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to visit the ISS. “What if the astronauts find evidence of intelligent life …
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