Sept 8 - Top Stories This Week

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Translate UTC to your time. Good morning! Here’s the roundup for this week. Watch online tonight, as asteroid sweeps past Asteroid 2018 RC will pass Earth safely tonight, at about half the moon's distance, according to clocks in the Americas. Learn how to see it online. All 8 planets in 1 night, from Rome Gianluca Masi at the Virtual Telescope Project shared his adventure capturing 8 planets in a single night. "As humans," he wrote, "we need to feed our 5 senses with beauty." Read more. Why you can smell rain How your nose knows when it’s on the way. Read more. Hear the vibration of the sun "It has a warmth to it. It's just enough where I can almost feel the sound on my skin." Hear it for yourself. Scientists have turned solar data into sound. Listen here. Image via NASA. More top stories Saturn's famous hexagon towers above cloudtops Why were prehistoric insects so big? Love vines suck life from wasps, leaving mummies Watch it get hotter, 1880-2017 Jupiter's growing pains, explained   Stunning close-up view of cloud systems on Jupiter, from Juno’s Perijove 14 orbit in July, 2018. Image via NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

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Close-up on Cassiopeia the Queen The constellation Cassiopeia the Queen has the distinct shape of a W or M. Find her in the north-northeast sky on September and October evenings.

4 planets from Hong Kong View larger. | Photographer Matthew Chin captured planets Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus on Thursday night in the sky over Yuen Long, Hong Kong.  Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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