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Join EarthSky's Marcy Curran in a video preview of the #moon phases for March. There will be a total lunar eclipse of the full moon and a partial solar eclipse by the new moon this month. Also, the moon will visit Venus, Jupiter and Mars in the evening sky. Watch the video here! buff.ly/3EY44Oy

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If you ask an astronomer when the first day of #spring is this year, they’ll say 9:01 UTC (4:01 a.m. CDT) on March 20. But if you ask a meteorologist or climatologist, they'll tell you spring starts March 1. How are there two different spring seasons? Read here: buff.ly/41bCy7q 📸 Pexels/ Pixabay.

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EarthSky's Raúl Cortés caught dancing aurora in Lapland last night! The solar wind has been strong, leading to geomagnetic storming. Have you seen the aurora lately? 🔭 Keep up with the #sun news at buff.ly/4a84cpK

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Tonight a slender waxing crescent #moon - only a little over a day old - will float above the western horizon about 30-40 minutes after sunset. Far above it, Venus will glow brightly. Look for bright Mercury close to the moon. Visit EarthSky’s night sky guide and watch a video at: buff.ly/3pjX4RP

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Interesting! Scientists at a research station with the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior said they noticed something curious about wild #fish. The fish were able to recognize #human divers based on visual cues from their dive gear. 🐟🤿 buff.ly/41yutuU 📸 MPIAB/ Maëlan Tomasek.

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The last leap year was 2024. So 2028 will be our next leap year, a 366-day-long year, with an extra day added to our calendar (February 29). We’ll call that extra day a leap day. Why do we need the extra day? Blame Earth’s orbit. Read about leap years at: buff.ly/3uqy1iP 📸 NASA.

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Adeel Shafiq in Pakistan shared this composite image and wrote: "A Boeing 777 #aircraft climbing after its departure from Allama Iqbal International airport. I captured this image using the technique of long exposure, on a fixed tripod." Thanks! buff.ly/4igzTQZ

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Michael Flynn in Pine Mountain Club, California, shared this image of the #sunrise over Mil Potrero Hwy in Kern County. Thank you! buff.ly/3DdJcCj Do you have a recent photo of your own to share? Submit it here: buff.ly/40eWB4m

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2025 has a lot of supermoons, and the 1st one – a new #supermoon – falls at 0:45 UTC tonight. We'll have 5 new supermoons in a row. Then we'll have 3 full supermoons in a row around the end of 2025. So … what’s a supermoon? 🌕🔭 buff.ly/47BuT3r 📸 Michael Flynn.

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Meet the wooly devil! 😈 In March 2024, staff members of Big Bend National Park in Texas spotted a tiny #flower with fuzzy foliage they didn't recognize. On Monday, the National Park Service said the new #plant species is previously unknown to science. buff.ly/3EVFAW9 📸 NPS/ D. Manley.

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Firefly Aerospace's #BlueGhost is orbiting the #moon. Soon, it'll begin its descent to the lunar surface. It's still on track for a March 2 lunar landing. 🚀🌕🔭 Watch a livestream preview: buff.ly/41x6RXA Read more about the Blue Ghost mission: buff.ly/4fN56tq 📸 EarthSky.

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A minor geomagnetic #storm began this morning! Are any of you seeing #auroras? Solar wind speeds are rising due to coronal holes on the #sun. And we have a slight chance of additional geomagnetic storming in the coming 2 days. 🔭 Read the sun news: https://buff.ly/4a84cpK 📸 Spaceweatherlive.com.

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New lunar lander #Athena is on its way to the #moon! At 7:17 p.m. EST last night, Intuitive Machines' 2nd mission successfully launched to the moon on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. The mission should arrive on the lunar surface in 1 week. 🚀🌕🔭 https://buff.ly/3XekMzt 📸 Greg Diesel Walck.

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See some exciting new images from the #Lucy spacecraft! It's on a 4-billion-mile journey to explore a couple main-belt asteroids and 7 of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. And now it has the main-belt #asteroid Donaldjohanson in sight. 🪨🚀🔭 https://buff.ly/3p36TUy 📸 NASA/ Goddard/ SwRI/ JHUAPL.

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Stéphane Picard in Quispamsis, Canada, shared this image and wrote: "The #Rosette nebula. Located at about 5,200 light-years from us, this large #nebula has enough gas to produce an estimated 10,000 solar masses (stars the size of our sun)." Thank you! 🔭 https://buff.ly/4h1529Q

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Word is spreading that you can see all 7 #planets in the #sky together in late February and early March 2025. Want the truth? EarthSky's veteran stargazers Deborah Byrd, Marcy Curran and John Goss have your answer. 🪐🌌🔭 https://buff.ly/3CUbZfc 📸 EarthSky.org.

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Hawaii is famous for its #rainbows. But when EarthSky's Kelly Kizer Whitt visited Haleakala National Park on Maui, Hawaii, last month, she saw a white rainbow, also called a #fogbow or ghost rainbow. Watch the video! 🌈 https://buff.ly/43cAPl3 And read about fogbows. https://buff.ly/49pb1mj

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We love seeing - and sharing - all the fabulous #photos we receive from the talented photographers on our EarthSky Community Photos page. Enjoy our latest video with our editor's picks from the past week. 🌎🌌📸 Feast your eyes on THESE great #nature photos: https://buff.ly/3EWxH2C 📸 Mark Wralstad.

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#Secretarybirds are expert #snake killers. They kill them by stomping them with their feet! This bird has long slender legs that can deliver blows to snakes faster than the blink of an eye. Read about these #killer queens: https://buff.ly/3XjjQKh 📸 Opisska/ iNaturalist.

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Take a peek inside NASA's #VehicleAssemblyBuilding! It's the largest single-story building in the world. EarthSky's Greg Diesel Walck brings you an exclusive peek inside this iconic structure at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. #NASA 🏢🔭📸 https://buff.ly/3XmgjL1 📸 Greg Diesel Walck.

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It's launch day for the new #Athena lunar lander! This is Intuitive Machines' 2nd mission to the #moon. The newest lunar lander is named Athena, and it will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida tonight. 🚀🌕🔭 https://buff.ly/3XekMzt 📸 SpaceX/ NASA.

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David Hoskin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, captured this image and wrote: "The #Horsehead nebula (Barnard 33) is a small dark #nebula in the constellation #Orion. Although a challenge for visual observers, it is a wonderful photographic target." Thank you! https://buff.ly/4bfSytQ

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Bill Kozar in Columbus, Indiana, shared this image of the waning crescent #moon yesterday, about 30 minutes before #sunrise. Thank you! https://buff.ly/4ixHuuL Do you have a recent image you would like to share? Submit it here: https://buff.ly/40eWB4m

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Victoria Bryhan in Corvallis, Oregon, captured this beautiful #rainbow on Sunday. Thank you, Victoria! 🌈📸 https://buff.ly/417adiM See more great images, and submit your own recent #photos, at EarthSky Community Photos: https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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We reported an X flare yesterday, which came from the western (outgoing) edge of the #sun. And yesterday night, another #blast gave us a surprise! The event was an M3.9 flare. It probably came from the same sunspot region that produced the X #flare: https://buff.ly/4a84cpK 📸 SDO.

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Yesterday's livestream – about how U.S. #science drives U.S. #prosperity – was fascinating. We interviewed astronomer Chris Impey, author of an article titled: Cutting Funding for Science Can Have Consequences for the Economy, U.S. Technological Competitiveness: https://buff.ly/4gVRLzC

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Have you ever noticed the different #colors of the #stars? Winter is the perfect season to see them. By all means, go check them out #tonight! And learn how you can also tell the temperature of a star by its color. 🌌🔭 https://buff.ly/41GlW9H 📸 Paolo Palma. Thank you!

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Check out this STUNNING video taken by Blue Ghost in orbit around the moon. Note also the distant crescent Earth and the bright sun. Blue Ghost is on track for a March 2 lunar landing. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

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For the 1st time ever, astronomers have created a 3D map to study the weather on an alien #exoplanet. The exoplanet - called #WASP121b, aka Tylos - is a hot Jupiter found 900 light-years away in the direction of the constellation #Puppis the Stern. 🌌🔭 https://buff.ly/41hxJK4 📸 ESO/ M. Kornmesser.

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Good news! On February 18, we were up to a 3.1% - or 1-in-32 odds - that #asteroid 2024 YR4 would hit #Earth on December 22, 2032. But as of today, the odds have dropped to 1-in-20,000. Why? 🔭 Read more: https://buff.ly/3PU8jwU 📸 EarthSky.org.

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Brenda Johnson in Clarksburg, West Virginia, saw this stunning #sunpillar over a nearby hill on Saturday. Thank you, Brenda! ☀️📸 https://buff.ly/41drBCt See more great images, and submit your own at EarthSky Community Photos:  https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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Sudhir Sharma in Stormville, New York, sent us this great closeup of #frost crystals on a wooden table on Saturday Thank you, Sudhir! ❄️📸 https://buff.ly/41t95HH See more and submit your own recent #photos: https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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Steven Sweet in Mississuaga, Ontario, Canada, captured the bright crescent #moon shining through clouds over Lake Ontario on Saturday. Thank you, Steven! 🌒🔭📸 https://buff.ly/3D0sJkX See more great images, and submit your own recent #photos, at EarthSky Community Photos:  https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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Gwen Forrester in DeKalb County, Tennessee, captured this great view of the Horsehead nebula and Flame nebula last Monday. Thank you, Gwen! #nebulae 🌌🔭📸 https://buff.ly/3Qv2tlK Go to EarthSky Community Photos to see more, and submit your own recent #photos: https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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POW! A powerful #solarflare exploded on the #sun late yesterday. The X 2.0 flare was just beyond the edge of the sun, not pointing toward Earth. Read the sun news: https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/

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Mario Rana in Hampton, Virginia, captured this beautiful view of the M81 and M82 #galaxies on Saturday. Thank you, Mario! 🌌🔭📸 https://buff.ly/437qBCs See more photos and submit your own at EarthSky Community Photos:  https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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How you can see the planets. Watch the planet forecast for the rest of February here.

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You can star-hop from the Great Square in #Pegasus to find the #AndromedaGalaxy, the Milky Way's nearest large galactic neighbor. Find out how: https://buff.ly/3QsQtkR

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Join EarthSky’s Dave Adalian and astronomer and Arizona university professor Chris Impey as they discuss the future of U.S. #science. Watch at 12:15 p.m. CST (18:15 UTC) on Monday. Watch here! https://buff.ly/41qOoMw

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Picture a dull gray-brown-green primordial Earth. Fast forward to today, and Earth life teems with a kaleidoscope of #colors. Why did they develop? Read about it: https://buff.ly/3XCnpvh 📸 Guisti596/ Pixabay.

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Was the #evolution of humanity a fluke? A new model for our origin says our coming into being might have been more likely than previously thought. Read on at: https://buff.ly/3EQhQCM 📸 Igor Cibulsky/ Pexels.

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Jelieta Walinski at Desert Bloom Observatory in St. David, Arizona, took this photograph of the #OrionNebula. Thank you, Jelieta! https://buff.ly/4ke1l3o Got a photo of your own to share? Submit it here! https://buff.ly/40eWB4m

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Shaurya Salunkhe in Pune, Maharashtra, India, photographed this little banded goshawk. Thank you, Shaurya! https://buff.ly/4hPvlRA Have a photo of your own to share? Submit it here! https://buff.ly/40eWB4m

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Guido Santacana in San Juan, Puerto Rico, shared this image of the #Orion #nebula containing a stack of 300 10-second exposures. Wow! Thank you, Guido! https://buff.ly/4hJ4dDU See more beautiful photos from our global community of photographers: https://buff.ly/3DRRmjL

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Peter Lask in Oxford Township, Ohio, took this wonderful image of the #sun behind a silhouette of trees. Thank you, Peter! https://buff.ly/3DfAWl8 What is a #sunpillar, or light pillar? Read more here: https://buff.ly/3QrOFbP

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Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe, took these images of the #sun, #clouds and #lightning on Tuesday. Thank you, Peter! https://buff.ly/4174k5f Read more about different cloud formations and see stunning images here: https://buff.ly/3D5wntM

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