‘Snow Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Shines with Comet Tonight: What to Expect

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‘Snow Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Shines with Comet Tonight: What to Expect

Space.com
Early this evening (Feb. 10), careful observers across parts of North America can watch a Full Snow Moon penumbral lunar eclipse. With a pair of binoculars or a small telescope, skywatchers can also catch a glimpse of a bright-green comet passing by Earth.

‘It was really haunting’: 416 beached whales propel New Zealanders into frenzied rescue mission

Washington Post
The writer, photographer and tour guide gathered at a quarter past six Friday morning, their destination Farewell Spit. The dainty, fingerlike peninsula cups the northern edge of shallow Golden Bay, one of New Zealand’s most picturesque natural scenes

As bee populations dwindle, robot bees may pick up some of their pollination slack

Los Angeles Times
One day, gardeners might not just hear the buzz of bees among their flowers, but the whirr of robots, too. Scientists in Japan say they’ve managed to turn an unassuming drone into a remote-controlled pollinator by attaching horsehairs coated with a

NASA Maps Out Possible Lander Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa

Space.com
Artist’s illustration of NASA’s possible Europa lander on the surface of the icy Jovian moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter’s ocean-harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape.

An astronaut explains why we shouldn’t leave Earth to colonize Mars

Quartz
Ron Garan, a former NASA astronaut, believes we should not be abandoning hope for continued life on planet Earth in favor of rubbing shoulders with Martians.

The Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. Has $4398000 Stake in Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD)

DailyQuint
Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. cut its stake in Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) by 17.3% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NASA, ESA Join Forces For Space Explorations Around Moon

Tech Times
The ESA has shared that it has reached an agreement with NASA to develop a second module for a manned mission slated for 2021. The two agencies are joining forces for a space exploration that is around the moon.

Live coverage: SpaceX transfers rocket to launch pad 39A

Spaceflight Now
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Climate Change This Week: The Fossil Fuel Alzheimers Connection, Trump Threatens Farming, and More!

Huffington Post
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As Antarctic ice shelves shrink, ‘shelfwatchers’ await major break-off

Christian Science Monitor
A huge iceberg is likely to soon break off from the Larsen C Antarctic ice shelf. Although break-ups themselves don’t contribute to sea rise, they can indirectly increase it.

Trump administration delays listing bumblebee as endangered

Washington Post
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – The Trump administration on Thursday delayed what would be the first endangered designation for a bee species in the continental U.S.

Students recreate 5000-year-old Chinese beer

The Drinks Business
Students from Stanford University in the US have brewed a beer using a 5,000-year-old Chinese recipe. Beer in ancient China would have contained the ingredients that had been used for fermentation and would likely have been drunk through a straw, …

‘Superflares’ Likely Made Proxima b Uninhabitable Long Ago

Space.com
An artist’s illustration of the surface of Proxima b, a roughly Earth-size world that orbits the nearby red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.

Midsize Black Hole Found Hiding in Globular Cluster

Scientific American
This artist’s impression illustrates how an intermediate-mass black hole would distort the light from a background globular cluster.

Hungry Penguins Trapped in Overfished Waters by Climate Change

Seeker
Formerly reliable signals from the sea about where to find food leave African penguins foraging in the wrong places and dying in high numbers, a study finds.

Ancient Underwater Landslide Triggered 8-Story High Tsunami Near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Tech Times
The Gloria Knolls Slide, an undersea landslide that occurred more than 300,000 years ago produced underwater hills and may have triggered powerful tsunami.

New support for British spaceports

BBC News
The government is looking to push forward commercial spaceflight activity in the UK with a series of grants totalling £10m. The money is aimed at consortia that want to start launching satellites – and even people – from British soil.

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