Apr 12 - Fly with the World’s Fastest Bird

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Fly with the world’s fastest bird When in its hunting dive, the peregrine falcon is the fastest bird - in fact, the fastest animal - on Earth. Get a bird's-eye view of the flight of this magnificent creature, in this video. Vote to help name solar system's largest unnamed body It has one of the reddest surfaces yet found in our solar system's distant Kuiper Belt. Vote to decide between 3 possible names. Iron volcano eruptions on metal asteroids? New research suggests that volcanoes of molten iron might have erupted onto the surface of metallic asteroids. Read more. What We're Reading   From the Washington Post … A new human species A report published this week in the journal Nature says that bones found in an island cave might be a new human species. The new discovery is helping to show that human evolution was "highly versatile." Read more.

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Tonight … Moon and Gemini stars Watch for Gemini's 2 brightest stars - Castor and Pollux - near tonight's moon. On the other side of the moon, you'll see a 3rd bright star. It's Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor, the Lesser Dog. Read more.

A solitary sunspot View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Eileen Ferguson captured this image of sunspot AR2738 on April 10. She's in Mallaig, in the Scottish Highlands. Early astronomers first glimpsed sunspots at sunrise or sunset. Nowadays, we know you should never look at the sun without eye protection. Dr Ski in the Philippines has been observing this sunspot, too. He said this morning that it's visible to the eye, maybe via your solar eclipse glasses left from observing the Great American Eclipse of 2017. See more images of AR 2738. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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