Lunar eclipse tonight if it’s clear in your area and you feel like getting up:
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Forecast here is for clouds. Will probably get up anyways just to make sure nothing is visible.
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The moon will be directly above my local college’s hillside emblem from my home - If the sky clears I will snap a picture of it (around 8:00 PM EST)
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Lunar Eclipse looking good! 
Really cool glow when it got fully covered!
Cool red moon this AM at my 3:14 am on 3/14
I couldn’t get my iPhone to get better than this It was straight up and I couldn’t hold still in that contorted way for too long.
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I was late and it was pretty cloud covered. I took a couple pictures and could see the glow and you could tell it was a crescent rather than fully round like a full moon should be.
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Progressed a lot slower than the solar eclipse. Brightness of remaining parts overwhelmed camera sensors so pics seemed to overestimate portion not in shadow. Still saw a slightly brighter rim in totality than I expected. Wonder if earth moon distance was higher than average. Haven’t checked.
It amazes me what the James Webb telescope can detect at a distance of 124 light years.
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A transient luminous event photographed from the ISS. Or if you prefer, what thunderstorms can look like from above.
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A few clickbait sources are describing this as “life found on Mars.”. It’s not quite that, but…
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Unfortunately won’t get real confirmation until after the retrieval mission, which keeps having its funding cut.
I want a new Trump, but he just spends lots on space exploration
Is that C-3PO’s arm???
If it were pitched as sending Elmo there to check it out, on scene, I imagine that we could pass a hat and collect sufficient funds to make that happen.
I’ve seen this movie
In case you don’t like yahoo and want to read the scientific literature: [2509.12351] Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
I think it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who had an interesting youtube video about options. One interesting one was a big tungsten nail in space and then the meteor hits it and breaks up into a cloud of smaller debris that can break up in the atmosphere
Leonid meteor shower peaks today/tomorrow. Get out there if you have clear skies
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