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Month: September 2021

Observing

See brilliant planet Venus encounter a slender Moon

7 September 2021 Mark Armstrong

Don’t mission your chance to see Venus and a slender Moon, the two brightest objects in the night sky, come together for a few days this week.

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Hubble images a colourful globular cluster in Sagittarius

6 September 2021 Astronomy Now

M22, M13, Omega Centauri and other densely-populated globular clusters get most of the attention, but even sparsely-populated globulars provide rich fodder for the Hubble Space Telescope.

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After an initial failure, Perseverance collects Martian rock sample

6 September 2021 Astronomy Now

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully captured its first rock sample from the floor of Jezero Crater after an initial failure.

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  • See all the planets in January
    16 January 2023
  • Frank Drake, SETI pioneer, 1930–2022
    3 September 2022
  • Webb images of Jupiter show auroras, rings, moons
    24 August 2022
  • Webb: Stellar nursery in Carina
    12 July 2022
  • Webb: a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions
    12 July 2022
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