Feb 26 - Life's Origins

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Please help EarthSky keep going ... EarthSky is in the midst of its once-yearly crowd-funding campaign. We're 74% of the way toward our goal! Can you help? We need you. Click to donate and learn more.  Image via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. New NASA consortium to study how life began How did life originate on Earth and, possibly, other worlds in space? A new NASA consortium has the goal of probing one of nature's most perplexing mysteries. Read more. Before dawn … Spectacular moon and 3 planets A beautiful scene awaits you in the early morning sky. See the chart below, and read more. Countdown to calving at Antarctic ice shelf Growing cracks show that the Brunt Ice Shelf is poised to release an iceberg about twice the size of New York City. See the images. Cracks in Brunt Ice Shelf, as of January 23. Note the research stations, part of the British Antarctic Survey, whose presence on the ice shelf began in 1955. Halley IV had to be closed in 1992, due to destabilized ice. In 2016-2017, the Halley VI station was relocated to a safer location (Halley VIa) upstream of the growing crack. Image via NASA Earth Observatory.

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Before sunup … Spectacular moon and 3 planets It's a golden opportunity to see the moon sweep past 3 glorious planets: Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Read more.

Andromeda galaxy via robotic telescope View at EarthSky Community Photos.  | James Figge of Delmar, New York captured this image of the Andromeda galaxy last Saturday night - from the comfort of his home - with the Harvard-Smithsonian 6-inch robotic telescope in Arizona. Hear how he did it. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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