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Caption: HST-Galaxies, Credit: NASA
Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Parker Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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There’s no end in sight to the war in Ukraine, but some refugees are heading home, The horror revealed after the Russian retreat, And mass graves, ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

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  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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An interview with singer/actress Olivia Newton-John who talks about her new duet with her daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, "Window in the Wall" as we...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
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A community in Germany fights back an annual nazi parade with pledges to a group that counters hate groups.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit:  Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was observing in the constellation of Boötes with our 60 telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he d...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Noctilucent Clouds exist at more than 50 miles above the Earth's surface or about 4 times higher than the tops of the most intense tropical thunder...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

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  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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