Sept 1 - Top Stories This Week

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Jon Greif captured Comet 21P/ Giacobini-Zinner on August 27 Good morning, and happy weekend. Here's the weekly wrap-up... Heads up! 2 comets to sweep past Earth One - shown in the image above - is currently visible through telescopes. The other might become visible to the eye alone later this year. Read more. This weekend … Moon and Taurus the Bull You'll need to stay up late, or get up early, to see the moon now. Let it guide you to Taurus this weekend, then use an easy star guide - the 3 stars in Orion's Belt - to locate Taurus when the moon moves away. Here's how. Read more. How Gaia could help find Dyson spheres Good discussion started on this post! Come join in. Read more. Hybrid super-snakes in South Florida? The first pythons in Florida were likely escaped pets. Now there are about 150,000 loose in the state. In a new study, scientists explain why pythons might be better adapted to South Florida than anyone had thought. Read more.   A Burmese python coiled in the grass in South Florida. Yikes! Image via Bryan Falk, USGS. More top stories Why are some species more likely to go extinct? OSIRIS-REx sets sights on asteroid Bennu NASA Selfies app lets you play astronaut See it! This month's full moon New Horizons has Ultima Thule in view Volcano helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo?

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This weekend … Moon and Taurus the Bull Look for the bright star Aldebaran in the V-shaped face of the Bull. Then find the tiny, dipper-shaped Pleiades star cluster, aka the Seven Sisters, in the Bull's shoulder.

Moonlight over Black Waterfall, Iceland Svartifoss - the Black Waterfall - on Iceland's south coast is a popular destination for hikers and tourists. It drops from a crescent-shaped cliff made of black basalt columns. Photo: Grafixart Sam. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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