Astronomy News

EarthSky News:

  • Sun news: Ka-BOOM! X flare!
    by C. Alex Young on March 28, 2025 at 5:33 pm

    Sun news March 28, 2025. UPDATE. An X flare has erupted from the sun's eastern limb, the side of the sun just now rotating into view. The post Sun news: Ka-BOOM! X flare! first appeared on EarthSky.

  • Massive Myanmar earthquake. Hundreds feared dead.
    by Deborah Byrd on March 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    The 7.7-magnitude Myanmar earthquake caused the collapse of an unfinished high-rise in Bangkok, with 81 construction workers inside. The post Massive Myanmar earthquake. Hundreds feared dead. first appeared on EarthSky.

  • Visible planets and night sky guide for March and April
    by Marcy Curran on March 28, 2025 at 11:45 am

    Visible planets and night sky guide. Watch a video about tomorrow's partial solar eclipse that will be visible in some areas of North America. The post Visible planets and night sky guide for March and April first appeared on EarthSky.

  • A deep partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025
    by Marcy Curran on March 28, 2025 at 11:30 am

    A deep partial solar eclipse will occur tomorrow, Saturday, March 29, 2025. Find information on visibility and viewing tips here. The post A deep partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025 first appeared on EarthSky.

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APOD: Astronomy Picture of the Day:

  • Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
    on March 28, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

  • Messier 81
    on March 28, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size

  • Post Title
    on March 28, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them.

NASA Breaking News:

  • NASA Boosts Efficiency with Custom X-66 Flooring
    by Dede Dinius on March 28, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 aircraft to use while it is transformed into the X-66 experimental demonstrator aircraft. These floorboards will protect the original flooring and streamline the modification process. Supporting the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, a small team in the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,

  • Visiting Mars on the Way to the Outer Solar System
    on March 28, 2025 at 6:23 pm

    Written by Roger Wiens, Principal Investigator, SuperCam instrument / Co-Investigator, SHERLOC instrument at Purdue University Recently Mars has had a few Earthly visitors. On March 1, NASA’s Europa Clipper flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of the Red Planet’s surface on its way out to Jupiter. On March 12, the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft

  • Turning Vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel
    by Monika Luabeya on March 28, 2025 at 4:51 pm

    Men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in this February 1944 publicity photo. The photo was taken just weeks after the tunnel became operational. The AWT was the only wind tunnel capable of testing full-size aircraft engines in

  • Sols 4493-4494: Just Looking Around
    on March 28, 2025 at 3:14 pm

    Written by Alex Innanen, atmospheric scientist at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 It’s my second shift of the week as the Environmental theme lead and keeper of the plan (a bit of a mouthful we shorten to ESTLK) and today started out feeling eerily similar to Monday. Once again, Curiosity is

  • Hubble Spots a Chance Alignment
    on March 28, 2025 at 11:39 am

    The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and classified as a ‘flocculent’ spiral, meaning its spiral arms are patchy and indistinct. While some galaxies have extraordinarily bright centers that host a feasting

Space Station News:

  • NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-11 Assignments for Space Station Mission
    by Tiernan P. Doyle on March 27, 2025 at 9:07 pm

    As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch in the coming months to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronauts Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos

  • Investigaciones de la NASA en la estación espacial ayudan a impulsar la ciencia lunar
    by Ana Guzman on March 25, 2025 at 4:34 pm

    La Estación Espacial Internacional sustenta una amplia gama de actividades científicas, desde la observación de nuestro universo hasta el logro de avances en investigaciones médicas, y es un campo de pruebas activo en la tecnología para futuras misiones de exploración en la Luna y más allá. La misión Blue Ghost 1 de Firefly Aerospace aterrizó en

  • NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 32nd Resupply Launch to Space Station
    by Jessica Taveau on March 24, 2025 at 5:34 pm

    Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated March 27, 2025, to add a launch time for NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Mission. Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 4:15 a.m. EDT on Monday,

Sky & Telescope Observing  News:

  • This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 28 – April 6
    by Alan MacRobert on March 28, 2025 at 8:50 am

    While waiting for sunrise on eclipse morning, can you catch Venus rising as a tiny, thin crescent? Go out earlier while the sky is still dark, and you get a preview of July evenings with Scorpius on the meridian. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 28 – April 6 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

  • Sunrise Solar Eclipse on March 29th for Eastern North America
    by Bob King on March 27, 2025 at 1:28 pm

    The March 29th partial solar eclipse offers unique opportunities for photography and viewing alike. The post Sunrise Solar Eclipse on March 29th for Eastern North America appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

  • T CrB Not the Only Star Ready to Blow, Meet U Gem
    by Bob King on March 26, 2025 at 1:43 pm

    As we wait on recurrent nova T CrB, dwarf nova U Geminorum is teeing up for its next 8-magnitude outburst. The post T CrB Not the Only Star Ready to Blow, Meet U Gem appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

  • This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 21 – 30
    by Alan MacRobert on March 21, 2025 at 9:09 am

    If you're in the US northeast or eastern Canada, start planning for the sunrise partial eclipse on March 29th! In the night sky the stern of the ship Argo is at its highest, abutting the stern of Canis Major. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 21 – 30 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

  • This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 14 – 23
    by Alan MacRobert on March 14, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    High overhead after dark, how accurately can you judge a celestial right angle? Watch the changing Castor-Pollux-Mars group to find out. Meanwhile the waning gibbous Moon will rise later and later, opening up dark-sky observing in the evening. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 14 – 23 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

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Stardate Podcast:

  • Superflares
    by Billy Henry on March 27, 2025 at 5:00 am

    Those are the sounds of cosmic attacks – massive storms on the Sun firing energy and particles into Earth’s magnetic field. Such outbursts can damage orbiting satellites, cause radio blackouts, foul GPS signals, and even knock out power grids on the surface. And there are indications that we […]

  • Messier 3
    by Billy Henry on March 26, 2025 at 5:00 am

    The star cluster Messier 3 is a beautiful sight – a sparkly ball of half a million stars. But the view from the cluster would be even more spectacular. M3 is high above the plane of the Milky Way, so the galaxy would spread out below it like a brilliant pinwheel. M3 is a globular cluster – a […]

  • Cosmic Voids
    by Billy Henry on March 25, 2025 at 5:00 am

    The universe is put together like Swiss cheese – some regions are the cheese; others are the holes. The “cheese” consists of clusters and superclusters of galaxies. The “holes” are just that – cosmic voids. The largest voids span more than a billion light-years. Cosmic voids were […]

  • Virgo Cluster
    by Billy Henry on March 24, 2025 at 5:00 am

    Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs to a small cluster of galaxies – the Local Group. It has fewer than a hundred known members. But most galaxies reside in much more impressive clusters. And the closest of these is centered in the constellation Virgo, which steps up the eastern sky this […]

  • Lost Cluster
    by Billy Henry on March 23, 2025 at 5:00 am

    It might seem hard to lose a star cluster. But that’s what happened with Messier 48. It was cataloged by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771. When other astronomers looked for it, though, they couldn’t find it. In the early 1780s, Johann Bode and Caroline Herschel did see a cluster five […]

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