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Live coverage of the partial solar eclipse

23 October 2014 Astronomy Now

The live broadcast from NASA Television of the partial solar eclipse is now over.

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The 2015 Arctic total solar eclipse

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On 20 March the shadow of the Moon will race across the North Atlantic Ocean at supersonic speed, narrowly skirting the south-eastern corner of Iceland and making landfall at only two places – the Faroe Islands and the Svalbard archipelago. A partial eclipse will be visible across the UK and Europe.

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See Mercury at its best, Venus and a young Moon in the March evening sky

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Mercury attains a greatest easterly elongation of 18 degrees from the Sun on 15 March, the innermost planet’s best evening showing for Northern Hemisphere observers for the entire year. From 12–20 March, planets Mercury and Venus remain just 4 degrees apart low in the west 45 minutes after sunset as seen from the British Isles.

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See the Moon buzz the Beehive Cluster in the small hours of 12 January

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Observers in the UK with a clear sky high to the south-southeast shortly after midnight on Sunday, 12 January 2020 can see the 16-day-old waning gibbous Moon just three-quarters of a degree north of the beautiful open star cluster Messier 44, otherwise known as Praesepe, or the Beehive Cluster.

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  • Micrometeoroid dings James Webb mirror segment

    9 June 2022
  • Milky Way’s supermassive black hole shines in stunning first portrait

    12 May 2022
  • Webb optical alignment complete and virtually perfect

    9 May 2022
  • Ingenuity zooms over Mars rover’s discarded parachute and backshell

    2 May 2022
  • The largest comet ever seen has been measured – and it’s a whopper

    14 April 2022
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