Monday, November 1, 2021

Astro-Calendar: 2021 Nov. / Lunar Eclipse Nov. 19 / UPDATE: SpaceX Crew-3 Launch Delayed to Nov. 10; Crew-2 Splash-down Nov. 8

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   Latter phases of the Partial Lunar Eclipse / Partial Eclipse of the Moon seen from Gloucestershire, United Kingdom on 2019 July 17. A Pa...
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Monday, October 18, 2021

2021 Hunter's Moon: Wed.- This Year's October Full Moon

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    Photograph of Blockhouse replica at Fort Ouiatenon, a mid-18th century French fort on the Wabash River near West Lafayette, Indiana. Eac...
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Sunday, October 10, 2021

UPDATE: LIVE-STREAM WED. AM: Star Trek's Captain Kirk to Really Go to Space!

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William Shatner, on left, portrays star-ship Captain James T. Kirk, as he teleports back to the USS Enterprise. In this classic television e...
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Thursday, October 7, 2021

Strong, New Laser to Advance R&D at European Southern Observatory

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   The Laser Guide Star of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile. (Image Sources: Wikipedia....
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Friday, October 1, 2021

Astro-Calendar: 2021 Oct. / Launches: SpaceX to ISS; NASA to Jupiter Asteroids

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         Two U.S. space launches in October --- SpaceX Crew-3 with 3 NASA astronauts & 1 European astronaut to International Space Stati...
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Thursday, September 23, 2021

175th Anniversary: Discovery of Neptune

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        Narrow Angle Camera image of the planet Neptune taken by the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft on 1989 August 20, as the spacecraft approach...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

Harvest Moon Mon.; Fall Begins Wed.

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This diagram shows the position of the Earth, in relation to the Sun, at the time of the Autumnal Equinox, as well as the other equinox an...
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