August has been a spectacular month for astronomy, with a livelier than usual Perseids meteor shower, and five planets visible in the evening sky. Early tonight, one of the most impressive and rare sights will be visible just after sunset, as Venus and Jupiter will appear to almost touch, as space.com reports. Of course in reality the two […]
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Fly-By Spacecraft Captures Video of Earth and Moon
The Juno spacecraft is on a mission to Jupiter and will arrive in 2016. Meanwhile, it’s building up speed to get there, and that involved a fly-by of Earth last month, using the gravity of its home planet to give it a push along the way. As it passed, its cameras captured pictures of the […]