March 16 - Top Stories This Week

March 16 Top Stories This Week by:

50 billion free-floating planets in our galaxy? That's in addition to the billions of planets that might be orbiting the Milky Way's 200 billion stars. Small asteroid to sweep closer than moon's distance It'll pass safely by Earth on the night of March 21-22. Watch right whale and calf interact with dolphins Don't miss this video! More top stories Dinosaurs thrived before fatal asteroid impact Life better if it were it always daylight saving time? How Hubble and Gaia weighed the Milky Way Thousands of tiny ice quakes shake Antarctica at night Why are some icebergs green? Hyper-runaway star fled Milky Way disk New species of killer whale? How to see a green flash

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Tonight … Moon, Castor, Pollux, Procyon Let tonight's moon show you the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux, as well as Procyon, aka the Little Dog Star.

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter View at EarthSky Community Photos. | These 3 planets - 2 very bright ones and a fainter one - are lined up in the early morning sky now, nearly equidistant from each other. Dr Ski captured this image from Valencia, Philippines, on March 13. More photos here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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