Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Our Rotating Earth

Has your world ever turned upside-down? It would happen every day if you stay fixed to the stars. Most time-lapse videos of the night sky show the stars and sky moving above a steady Earth. Here, however, the camera has been forced to rotate so that the stars remain fixed, and the Earth rotates around them. The movie, with each hour is compressed to a second, dramatically demonstrates the daily rotation of the Earth, called diurnal motion. The video begins by showing an open field in Namibia, Africa, on a clear day, last year. Shadows shift as the Earth turns, the shadow of the Earth rises into the sky, the Belt of Venus momentarily appears, and then day turns into night. The majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy stretches across the night sky, while sunlight-reflecting, Earth-orbiting satellites zoom by. In the night sky, you can even spot the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The video shows a sky visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere, but a similar video could be made for every middle latitude on our blue planet. via NASA https://ift.tt/2NPRnHv


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New Florida Laws Address Sea Level, Algae, Pythons, Iguanas by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Republican Florida Ron DeSantis signed a slew of environmental bills in less than 24 hours that address issues ranging from sea level rise to blue-green algae blooms — and even given the state authority to use drones to fight invasive Burmese pyth…

Published: June 30, 2020 at 12:07PM

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Wisconsin Family Saves Bear Swimming With Head Stuck in Bin by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

A Wisconsin family helped save a young bear that was struggling to breathe while swimming in a lake with its head caught in a plastic food container.

Published: June 30, 2020 at 03:26PM

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Monday, June 29, 2020

Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble

What created this unusual planetary nebula? NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of its history, the planetary nebula has been expelling shells, as seen in blue in the featured image. In modern times, though, for reasons unknown, it began ejecting gas and dust (seen in red) in specific directions that created a new pattern that seems to have four corners. These shells and patterns have been mapped in impressive detail by recent images from the Wide Field Camera 3 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. What lies at the nebula’s center is unknown, with one hypothesis holding it to be a close binary star system where one star sheds gas onto an erratic disk orbiting the other star. NGC 7027, about 3,000 light years away, was first discovered in 1878 and can be seen with a standard backyard telescope toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus). via NASA https://ift.tt/2Aj01ve


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Worldwide Slowdown in Fishing Unlikely to Save Rare Species by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Commercial fishing taking place worldwide has dipped since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but scientists and conservation experts say it’s unclear if the slowdown will help endangered species of marine life recover.

Published: June 29, 2020 at 01:13PM

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How the Pandemic Is Making It Tougher to Study Whales by Michaela Vatcheva


By Michaela Vatcheva

Monday: Whales are dying at alarming rates, but the pandemic is keeping researchers away. Also: Gov. Gavin Newsom closes bars in some counties.

Published: June 29, 2020 at 08:56AM

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Boris Johnson Says COVID-19 Has Been a Disaster for Britain by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Monday that the coronavirus pandemic has been a “disaster” for Britain, as he announced a spending splurge designed to get the country — and his faltering Conservative government — back on track.

Published: June 29, 2020 at 07:31AM

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EU, UK Keen to Step Up the Pace as Trade Talks Resume by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

European Union and U.K. negotiators resumed in-person talks on a post-Brexit trade deal on Monday, with both sides insisting that the process must accelerate markedly if they’re to reach an agreement by the end of the year.

Published: June 29, 2020 at 06:43AM

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Swimming With the Sea Lions of Los Islotes by Benjamin Lowy


By Benjamin Lowy

Sea lions are often referred to as “dogs of the sea.” On a small island off the Baja coast, where the playful animals populate every rocky outcropping, they live up to their nickname.

Published: June 29, 2020 at 05:00AM

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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Dark Sky Reflections

When the lake calmed down, many wonders of the land and sky appeared twice. Perhaps the most dramatic from the dark sky was the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, visible as a diagonal band. Toward the right were both the Small (SMC) and Large (LMC) Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of our Milky Way. Faint multicolored bands of airglow fanned across the night. Numerous bright stars were visible including Antares, while the bright planet Jupiter appears just above the image center. The featured image is a composite of exposures all taken from the same camera and from the same location within 30 minutes in mid-May from the shore of Lake Bonney Riverland in South Australia. Dead trees that extend from the lake were captured not only in silhouette, but reflection, while lights from the small town of Barmera were visible across the lake. In July, Jupiter and Saturn will rise toward the east just as the Sun sets in the west. via NASA https://ift.tt/388t69f


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14 Missing From Fishing Boat After Philippine Sea Collision by The Associated Press


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The Philippine coast guard was searching on Monday for 14 people missing since a fishing boat and cargo vessel collided in choppy waters two nights earlier.

Published: June 28, 2020 at 09:04PM

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Chief Beaten by Police Is Longtime Fighter for Indigenous Rights by Catherine Porter


By Catherine Porter

Allan Adam leads a Dene nation that famously fought the Canadian government and oil lobby in its territory.

Published: June 28, 2020 at 12:01PM

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With Flights Banned, Son Sails Solo Across Atlantic to Reach Father, 90 by Daniel Politi


By Daniel Politi

An Argentine man stuck in Portugal because of the virus travels for 85 days the only way he could: in a small boat.

Published: June 28, 2020 at 11:18AM

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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Europa and Jupiter from Voyager 1

What are those spots on Jupiter? Largest and furthest, just right of center, is the Great Red Spot — a huge storm system that has been raging on Jupiter possibly since Giovanni Cassini’s likely notation of it 355 years ago. It is not yet known why this Great Spot is red. The spot toward the lower left is one of Jupiter’s largest moons: Europa. Images from Voyager in 1979 bolster the modern hypothesis that Europa has an underground ocean and is therefore a good place to look for extraterrestrial life. But what about the dark spot on the upper right? That is a shadow of another of Jupiter’s large moons: Io. Voyager 1 discovered Io to be so volcanic that no impact craters could be found. Sixteen frames from Voyager 1’s flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were recently reprocessed and merged to create the featured image. About 43 years ago, Voyager 1 launched from Earth and started one of the greatest explorations of the Solar System ever. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Bkda7N


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Most Athletes Are True to Word in Dates With Drug Testers by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

It’s almost as easy as sending a text. Open an app on the cell phone, type in a few words, click a box or two. To really make the system work, though, athletes have to be where they say they’ll be at the time they say they’ll be there.

Published: June 27, 2020 at 01:58PM

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Peak Performers: Shiffrin, Ski Team Return to Snow for Camp by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Mikaela Shiffrin rode the chair lift to the top of Copper Mountain on a sunny June day and took in a sight she hadn’t seen in a while: A freshly groomed, snow-packed course just waiting to be skied.

Published: June 27, 2020 at 02:52AM

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Friday, June 26, 2020

Eclipse under the ISS

The dark shadow of the New Moon reached out and touched planet Earth on June 21. A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured its passing in this snapshot from low Earth orbit near the border of Kazakhstan and China. Of course those along the Moon’s central shadow track below could watch the much anticipated annular eclipse of the Sun. In the foreground a cargo spacecraft is docked with the orbital outpost. It’s the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 from JAXA the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. via NASA https://ift.tt/2VlNFtF


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‘We Can’t Do Our Craft’: Conductors Contend With the Pandemic by Joshua Barone


By Joshua Barone

With most orchestral concerts canceled, conductors have been largely invisible.

Published: June 26, 2020 at 12:55PM

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Dead Dolphins Wash Up on France’s Shores in Record Numbers by Reuters


By Reuters

Dead dolphins are washing up on France’s Atlantic coast in such high numbers that local populations of the mammals are at risk, marine biologists say.

Published: June 26, 2020 at 09:34AM

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Mexican Economy Shrinks Record 17.3% in April as Industry Swoons by Reuters


By Reuters

Mexico’s economy posted a record contraction in April, official data showed on Friday, as the effects of the coronavirus lockdown devastated economic activity, particularly in manufacturing.

Published: June 26, 2020 at 07:52AM

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Amid Pandemic, SE Asian Nations Warn of ‘Alarming’ South China Sea Incidents by Reuters


By Reuters

Vietnam and the Philippines warned of growing insecurity in Southeast Asia at a regional summit on Friday amid concerns that China was stepping up its activity in the disputed South China Sea during the coronavirus pandemic.

Published: June 26, 2020 at 06:37AM

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China’s Military Provokes Its Neighbors, but the Message Is for the United States by Steven Lee Myers


By Steven Lee Myers

From the Himalayas to the South China Sea, China is pressing its territorial claims aggressively, raising the possibility of additional deadly clashes.

Published: June 26, 2020 at 03:00AM

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‘Eurovision Song Contest’ Review: Over the Top and Around the Bend by Jeannette Catsoulis


By Jeannette Catsoulis

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams play Icelandic singing hopefuls in this over-egged musical comedy.

Published: June 26, 2020 at 03:00AM

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Eclipse under the Bamboo

Want to watch a solar eclipse safely? Try looking down instead of up, though you might discover you have a plethora of images to choose from. For example, during the June 21st solar eclipse this confusing display appeared under a shady bamboo grove in Pune, India. Small gaps between close knit leaves on the tall plants effectively created a network of randomly placed pinholes. Each one projected a separate image of the eclipsed Sun. The snapshot was taken close to the time of maximum eclipse in Pune when the Moon covered about 60 percent of the Sun’s diameter. But an annular eclipse, the Moon in silhouette completely surrounded by a bright solar disk at maximum, could be seen along a narrow path where the Moon’s dark shadow crossed central Africa, south Asia, and China. via NASA https://ift.tt/2NBFgO9


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Panama Sees Surge of Coronavirus Infections After Reopening by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

In the weeks since Panama loosened restrictions in an attempt to gradually reactivate its economy, new COVID-19 infections have surged, especially in the densely populated poorer neighborhoods of its capital.

Published: June 25, 2020 at 07:40PM

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A Historic Heat Wave Roasts Siberia by Anton Troianovski


By Anton Troianovski

Wildfires are spreading. The mosquitoes are ravenous. People are shielding their windows from the midnight sun with foil and blankets.

Published: June 25, 2020 at 04:36PM

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Pandemic Forces Some Patients to Phone in Doctor Visits by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Video telemedicine took off earlier this year as the coronavirus paused in-person doctor visits. Earl Egner missed that trend.

Published: June 25, 2020 at 09:52AM

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As COVID-19 Races Up the Amazon River, Health Services Struggle to Keep Up by Reuters


By Reuters

After days suffering from shortness of breath, 49-year-old Andrelina Bizerra da Silva fainted suddenly.

Published: June 25, 2020 at 09:38AM

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Eclipse Street, Hong Kong

On June 21 an annular solar eclipse came soon after the solstice and our fair planet’s northernmost sunset for 2020. At maximum eclipse, the New Moon in silhouette created a ring of fire visible along a narrow path at most 85 kilometers wide. The annular eclipse path began in central Africa, crossed south Asia and China, and ended over the Pacific Ocean. But a partial eclipse of the Sun was visible over a much broader region. In Hong Kong, this busy section of Jordan Street looks to the northwest, well-aligned with the track of the near solstice afternoon Sun. The street level view was composited with an eclipse sequence made with a safe solar filter on the camera. For that location the eclipse was partial. The Moon covered about 90 percent of the Sun’s diameter at maximum, seen near the middle of the eclipse sequence. via NASA https://ift.tt/31d8Dyn


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Virus, Ahmaud Arbery, Solo Travel: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing by Carole Landry and Marcus Payadue


By Carole Landry and Marcus Payadue

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

Published: June 24, 2020 at 06:00PM

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South Dakota Tribe Sues Feds to Keep COVID-19 Checkpoints by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe alleges in a lawsuit that the federal government has been trying to coerce and threaten the tribe ever since South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked for help stopping its COVID-19 checkpoints on state and federal highway…

Published: June 24, 2020 at 05:31PM

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Swimmer Caught on Video Grabbing Shark at Delaware Beach by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

A swimmer in Delaware was caught on camera prying a shark’s mouth open with his hands this weekend in an effort to free it from a fishing hook.

Published: June 24, 2020 at 12:37PM

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‘The Ball Is in the UK’s Court,’ EU’s Brexit Negotiator Says by Reuters


By Reuters

Britain must send “clear signals” that it wants to seal a deal with the European Union on their relationship after Brexit, the bloc’s chief negotiator said ahead of more talks with London, adding a deal was still possible before the end of the yea…

Published: June 24, 2020 at 10:43AM

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No-Deal Brexit Will Hit Britain Harder, EU’s Barnier Says by Reuters


By Reuters

A failure to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union will hurt the British economy more, the EU’s negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday, although he offered flexibility in fishing.

Published: June 24, 2020 at 11:55AM

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The New Escapism: Isolationist Travel by Elaine Glusac


By Elaine Glusac

As travelers seek safety amid social distancing, the travel industry is adapting with outdoor trips, remote lodgings and private camps.

Published: June 24, 2020 at 05:00AM

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Malaysia to Detain, Charge Crew of ‘Illegal’ Vietnamese Boats by Reuters


By Reuters

Malaysia will detain and charge crew members of Vietnamese vessels caught illegally fishing in its waters instead of turning them away as authorities had done previously, the country’s coastguard chief said on Wednesday.

Published: June 24, 2020 at 02:37AM

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Inverted City Beneath Clouds

How could that city be upside-down? The city, Chicago, was actually perfectly right-side up. The long shadows it projected onto nearby Lake Michigan near sunset, however, when seen in reflection, made the buildings appear inverted. This fascinating, puzzling, yet beautiful image was captured by a photographer in 2014 on an airplane on approach to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The Sun can be seen both above and below the cloud deck, with the latter reflected in the calm lake. As a bonus, if you look really closely — and this is quite a challenge — you can find another airplane in the image, likely also on approach to the same airport. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Vdq0v9


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How Covid-19 Is Threatening Alaska’s Wild Salmon Fishing Season by Julia O’Malley


By Julia O’Malley

A Brooklyn winemaker travels north to Bristol Bay each summer to net the red salmon that support his family. This year he’s faced with a tough ethical and economic choice.

Published: June 23, 2020 at 11:19AM

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South Korea Church Hit by COVID-19 Says Members to Give Plasma for Research by Reuters


By Reuters

Around 4,000 recovered COVID-19 patients from a religious group at the centre of South Korea’s largest outbreak will donate plasma for research, an official said on Tuesday, a day after local officials filed a lawsuit against the church.

Published: June 23, 2020 at 07:37AM

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“Nature Deficit Disorder” Is Really a Thing by Meg St-Esprit McKivigan


By Meg St-Esprit McKivigan

Children’s behavior may suffer from lack of access to outdoor space, a problem heightened by the pandemic.

Published: June 23, 2020 at 05:00AM

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Short Season, No Summer Ball Make Staying Sharp a Challenge by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

If all had gone as he hoped, Elijah Cabell and his Florida State teammates would have been playing for the College World Series championship this week.

Published: June 23, 2020 at 02:28AM

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Monday, June 22, 2020

The X Ray Sky from eROSITA

What if you could see X-rays? The night sky would seem a strange and unfamiliar place. X-rays are about 1,000 times more energetic than visible light photons and are produced by violent explosions and high temperature astronomical environments. Instead of the familiar steady stars, the sky would seem to be filled with exotic stars, active galaxies, and hot supernova remnants. The featured X-ray image captures in unprecedented detail the entire sky in X-rays as seen by the eROSITA telescope onboard Spektr-RG satellite, orbiting around the L2 point of the Sun-Earth system, launched last year. The image shows the plane of our Milky Way galaxy across the center, a diffuse and pervasive X-ray background, the hot interstellar bubble known as the North Polar Spur, sizzling supernova remnants such as Vela, the Cygnus Loop and Cas A, energetic binary stars including Cyg X-1 and Cyg X-2, the LMC galaxy, and the Coma, Virgo, and Fornax clusters of galaxies. This first sky scan by eROSITA located over one million X-ray sources, some of which are not understood and will surely be topics for future research. via NASA https://ift.tt/37UFSbm


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At Least 15 Dead in Southern Mexico Wind-Farm Feud Killings by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

A longstanding feud over a wind-power project has boiled over into grisly violence, after at least 15 people were bludgeoned to death with stones and cement blocks, and some bodies were partly burned.

Published: June 22, 2020 at 08:43PM

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Quirky Alaska Tourist Town Struggles for Survival Amid Virus by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

In one quirky Alaska town, small sightseeing planes sit idle, the grand fireplace is dark at the usually bustling lodge, and the general store is stocked with ice cream for tourists who are nowhere to be seen.

Published: June 22, 2020 at 01:43PM

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A Football Career on the Cusp of Glory, Dashed by the Pandemic by Jeré Longman


By Jeré Longman

Bradley Sylve has dreamed of playing pro football for more than 15 years, persisting through Hurricane Katrina, a torn Achilles’ tendon and the XFL. He’s still determined to decide for himself when his window closes.

Published: June 22, 2020 at 03:00AM

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New Zealand Extends Cruise Ship Ban, Tightens Rules to Contain Virus at Border by Reuters


By Reuters

New Zealand on Monday extended a ban on cruise ships arriving in the country and tightened measures for visitors to exit quarantine, after reporting more coronavirus cases linked to overseas travel.

Published: June 22, 2020 at 01:22AM

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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse

What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday’s solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon’s center directly in front of the Sun’s center. The Moon, though, was too far from the Earth to completely block the entire Sun. Light that streamed around all of the edges of the Moon is called a ring of fire. Images at each end of the sequence show sunlight that streamed through lunar valleys. As the Moon moved further in front of the Sun, left to right, only the higher peaks on the Moon’s perimeter could block sunlight. Therefore, the dark streaks are projected, distorted, reversed, and magnified shadows of mountains at the Moon’s edge. Bright areas are called Bailey’s Beads. Only a narrow swath across Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere was able to see yesterday’s full annular solar eclipse. Next June, though, a narrow swath across Earth’s Northern Hemisphere will be able to see the next annular solar eclipse. A total solar eclipse will be visible at the bottom of the world near the end of this year. via NASA https://ift.tt/2YmU5KX


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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Moon Occults Venus

It may look like Earthrise, but it’s actually Venus-set. Just after sunrise two days ago, both the Moon and Venus also rose. But then the Moon overtook Venus. In the featured image sequence centered on the Moon, Venus is shown increasingly angularly close to the Moon. In the famous Earthrise image taken just over 50 years ago, the Earth was captured rising over the edge of the Moon, as seen from the Apollo 8 crew orbiting the Moon. This similar Venus-set image was taken from Earth, of course, specifically Estonia. Venus shows only a thin crescent because last week it passed nearly in front of the Sun, as seen from Earth. The Moon shows only a thin crescent because it will soon be passing directly in front of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Today, in fact, two days after this image was taken, the Moon will create a solar eclipse, with a thin swath across the Earth treated to an annular solar eclipse. via NASA https://ift.tt/3fK1M3s


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Friday, June 19, 2020

Northern Summer on Titan

Today’s solstice brings summer to planet Earth’s northern hemisphere. But the northern summer solstice arrived for ringed planet Saturn over three years ago on May 24, 2017. Orbiting the gas giant, Saturn’s moon Titan experiences the Saturnian seasons. Larger than inner planet Mercury, Titan was captured in this Cassini spacecraft image about two weeks after its northern summer began. The near-infrared view finds bright methane clouds drifting through Titan’s dense, hazy atmosphere as seen from a distance of about 507,000 kilometers. Below the clouds, dark hydrocarbon lakes sprawl near its fully illuminated north pole. via NASA https://ift.tt/37IaNYc


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EU Wants New Deal With Brexit Britain, but ‘Not at Any Cost’ by Reuters


By Reuters

The European Union is committed to reaching an agreement with Britain on their new relationship after Brexit – but not at any cost, the bloc said on Friday.

Published: June 19, 2020 at 09:29AM

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