Nov 5 - What Is a Fogbow?

November 5 What Is a Fogbow? by:

Edith Smith in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, captured this fogbow last week. She wrote: "The camera spotted it before I did with eye, as I was too engrossed in foggy conditions." Good morning!   What is a fogbow? Fogbows are rainbows' cousins - made by much the same process - but with the small water droplets inside a fog instead of larger raindrops. Read more. Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojans gets the nod from NASA There are perhaps as many Trojan asteroids orbiting 60 degrees ahead of and behind Jupiter as in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. Now NASA has given a go-ahead for the 1st mission to Jupiter's Trojans. Read more. The US and Europe take a next step toward the moon The European Service Module - eventually to be used to power and propel NASA's Orion spacecraft in the 1st manned moon mission since the 1970s  - leaves Europe today and arrives in the U.S. tomorrow. Read more. Where sexes come by the thousands There is more to sex than male and female. For some species, there are hundreds and even thousands of sexes and mating types. Read more.

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Don't miss the waning moon and Venus Now the moon has waned to a very thin crescent in the east before dawn. The bright object nearby is Venus. The pair - so near the sunrise - will be a wonderful sight Tuesday morning if you have a clear sky all the way to the eastern horizon!

Moon is waning, but Venus is waxing! Dennis Chabot of POSNE NightSky caught Venus in the east before dawn on Sunday morning. Telescopically, you can see that Venus is a crescent. That's because it passed between us and the sun on October 26 ... and its fully illuminated side, or day side, is still facing mostly away from us. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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