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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 29 – September 7

Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury continue at dawn. The evening Moon meets Saturn while Fomalhaut looks on. Saturn's own biggest moon casts its shadow onto Saturn's globe, for one of the last times for the next 15 years.

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Fast Radio Burst's Neighborhood Revealed

Astronomers have pinpointed the location of an one-time fast radio burst to a spiral arm of a nearby galaxy.

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Baby Planet Clears Gap in Young Protoplanetary Disk

With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a planet forming around a star 430 light-years away.

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Weird X-ray Flashes Lose Some of Their Mystery

Twelve years after they were first discovered, astronomers are coming to grips with fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — energetic explosions in the distant universe lasting from minutes to hours. At […]

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60-Second Astro News: Light Pollution, Birds, and Zambuto Mirrors

In this roundup of recent news, birds react to light pollution and a respected mirror maker calls it a day.

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 22 – 31

The Kite of Boötes tips. The Great Square of Pegasus balances en pointe. Cassiopeia climbs. And Saturn muscles up in the east.

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The Serpentine Apep Nebula, Imaged by the Webb Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope shows intriguing new details in the Apep Nebula, created by the colliding winds of two dying stars.

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JWST Discovers New Moon of Uranus

Astronomers have spotted a new small moon for Uranus in images from earlier this year.

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The Mystery of Leslie Peltier's "Two Tiny Diamonds"

How a determined amateur astronomer may have hit on the identity of a Cepheid variable double star described by a beloved author.

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Distant Little Red Dot Hosts a Huge (and Growing) Black Hole

A "little red dot" galaxy from when the universe was roughly half a billion years old shows signs of the most distant black hole known.

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Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Might Have Weird “Space Rainbows”

Scouring old data from NASA’s Cassini mission revealed puzzling atmospheric stripes that could help probe Saturn’s icy moon.

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No Evidence for Atmosphere on Trappist-1d

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the third world in the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system rule out a variety of atmospheres.

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 15 – 24

Saturn glows through the evening near the Andromegasus Dipper. Venus and Jupiter, drawing apart, still light the dawn dramatically. The Moon joins them.

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A Fast Radio Burst from the Early Universe

Astronomers at the South African MeerKAT observatory have discovered the most distant flash of radio waves to date, most likely stemming from activity around a magnetar.

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Were the Very First Stars Really That Massive?

Chaotic turbulence in primordial clouds of gas may have prevented the formation of extremely massive stars, according to new simulations by Taiwanese astronomers. The early universe consisted primarily of hydrogen […]

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 8 – 17

Set an alarm and take a peek east in early dawn to follow Venus and Jupiter through their spectacular conjunction this week.

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Alpha Centauri Might Have a Planet, Webb Telescope Finds

Direct images from the James Webb Space Telescope show what could be a Saturn-mass planet around Alpha Centauri.

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Moon or Not, the Perseid Meteor Shower Is On!

Sure, the Moon will be a problem. But clouds are worse. Don't miss one of the best meteor showers of the year.

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Honoring the Women of Astronomy

Even today, the names of women in astronomy are not as well known as they should be.

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Southern Splendors on Safari

Sky & Telescope Associate Editor Sean Walker and Contributing Editor Stephen James O’Meara accompanied nine adventurers on a stargazing safari for an immersive experience in the African bush in Botswana.

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 1 – 10

The waxing gibbous Moon of August haunts the low south. Venus and Jupiter draw toward a spectacular conjunction in early dawn.

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