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The Sky Today on Saturday, January 17: Titan sits near Saturn

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  January 16: Buzz the Beehive Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is also its brightest. Shining at mid-8th-magnitude, Titan is located near the disk of the ringed planet tonight, making it easy to find.  You can spot Saturn roughly 30° high in the southwestern


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Hunting season

Soumya Banerjee from Kolkata, India Orion the Hunter rises in the winter sky in this nightscape taken from Singalila National Park in India. The photographer used an astromodifed Canon 700D that captures the glowing hydrogen of the Orion molecular cloud complex (including Barnard’s Loop and M42), taking 22 one-minute sky frames at f/2.8 and ISO 800.

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Congress passes NASA budget, rejects Trump cuts

After a tumultuous eight months, Congress has passed an appropriations bill fully funding NASA with a $24.4 billion budget, rejecting the cuts proposed by President Trump.  The Senate passed a small bundle of appropriations bills known as a minibus on Thursday, Jan. 15, with a vote of 82 to 15. In the minibus was the


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NGC 6188: A nebula or a dragon fight to the death?

The Milky Way’s plane cuts through the northwestern corner of Ara the Altar, blessing this southern constellation with a surplus of deep-sky delights. But perhaps none surpasses the stunning emission nebula known as the Fighting Dragons of Ara, the Rim Nebula, or simply NGC 6188. The battling mythological beasts face off at the center of


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See a comet inside a comet

I just received this image of Comet 240P/NEAT from longtime Astronomy contributor Chris Schur, and I had to share it. This comet was discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program December 7, 2002. At that time, it glowed weakly at magnitude 18.4. It orbits the Sun every 7.6 years, and most recently arrived at perihelion (its


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