Nov 19 - "We Are Going"

November 19 "We Are Going" by:

Screenshot from new video We Are NASA. Watch. Happy Monday, everyone! If this new video from NASA echoes the style of U.S. politics in recent years, it should. It's an answer, in part, to the Space Policy Directive 1, signed by President Donald Trump at the end of 2017.   New NASA video on return to moon and Mars "We're returning to the moon, preparing to go beyond to Mars. We are going. We are NASA." Watch the video, and tell us what you think in the comments on that page. Lunar Outpost unveils small, exploratory moon rovers Late last week, the space technology startup Lunar Outpost publicly displayed its new moon rover concept - the Lunar Resource Prospector - for the 1st time. Read more.

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Tonight … Use Big Dipper to find star Capella You've heard of the pointer stars of the Big Dipper? They point to the North Star. You can also use them to find the star Capella, aka the Goat Star. Read more.

Pleiades star cluster, aka Seven Sisters Fred Espenak - aka Mr. Eclipse - posted this image at EarthSky Facebook last weekend. He wrote: "M45, the Pleiades star cluster. It's visible on November nights in the eastern sky as a tiny dipper-shaped clump of stars. Definitely one of the most beautiful open star clusters in the sky. This image is a stack of 20 individual 5-minute exposures through a Takahashi Epsilon 180ED Hyperbolic Astrograph using a Canon 6D DSLR." Read more. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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