Space.com
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- Brilliant Harvest Moon, the last supermoon of 2023, wows stargazers around the world (photos)by josh.dinner@futurenet.com (Josh Dinner) on 30th September 2023 at 2:23 pm
The final supermoon of the year, the Harvest Moon of September, gave skywatchers the final lunar thrill of the season.
- Lasers cut through star trails in beautiful photo from the European Southern Observatoryon 30th September 2023 at 12:57 pm
A new long exposure image from the European Southern Observatory captures stars as they travel overhead, creating what is known as star trails with the help of bright laser guide star beams.
- Celebrate 'Star Wars Rebels' 10th anniversary with Marvel Comicsby stingrayghost@gmail.com (Jeff Spry) on 30th September 2023 at 12:00 pm
Marvel Comics is releasing a set of special "Star Wars Rebels" 10th anniversary comic book covers that celebrate the characters that now appear in the live action series "Ahsoka."
- New York City is sinking — and it's not just because of the floodingon 30th September 2023 at 10:00 am
Between 2016 and 2023, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), a space-based sensing technique, to 3D map the vertical land motion of the ground beneath New York. They found that during this period, the city sinks an average of 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year.
- Watch the glow of the Milky Way and ghostly zodiacal light during the 2023 Perseid meteor shower (video)on 30th September 2023 at 10:00 am
The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of Earth shining upon it in gorgeous photos by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.
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- Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be Thereon 29th September 2023 at 9:47 pm
A large, gaseous exoplanet orbits a red giant star that should have destroyed it. It’s 530 light-years from Earth.
- NASA Selects Four Small Explorer Mission Concept Studiesby Abbey A. Donaldson on 29th September 2023 at 8:34 pm
NASA has selected four small explorer missions to conduct concept studies.
- Near-Earth Asteroids as of September 2023on 29th September 2023 at 8:05 pm
September 2023 Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about comets and asteroids that could pose an impact hazard with Earth. Here is the what we’ve found for September.
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- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8by Alan MacRobert on 29th September 2023 at 9:54 am
The Moon pairs with Jupiter, then the Pleiades, as it departs the evening sky. That leaves a dark-sky Milky Way crossing the zenith, where Cygnus the Milky Way Swan flies southward for fall. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- How Did Two Hot and Super-dense Neptunes Form?by Arwen Rimmer on 28th September 2023 at 7:11 pm
Astronomers have discovered two Neptune-size planets that are denser than rock and in searingly close orbits to their star. How did these odd worlds form? The post How Did Two Hot and Super-dense Neptunes Form? appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Night Sky News from Astronomy Now
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8by Alan MacRobert on 29th September 2023 at 9:54 am
The Moon pairs with Jupiter, then the Pleiades, as it departs the evening sky. That leaves a dark-sky Milky Way crossing the zenith, where Cygnus the Milky Way Swan flies southward for fall. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 22 – October 1by Alan MacRobert on 22nd September 2023 at 9:19 am
The bright Moon steps eastwaed night by night under Altair, then Saturn, then the Great Square of Pegasus. Meanwhile, Deneb replaces Vega as the zenith star; welcome to fall. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 22 – October 1 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.