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Friday, April 26, 2019

Apr 26 - What Caused the Great Dying?

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What caused the Great Dying?

New evidence that volcanic eruptions caused the Great Dying, a mass extinction 252 million years ago that killed off 95% of life on Earth. Read more.

TESS discovers its 1st Earth-sized exoplanet

Launched in 2018, TESS is NASA's new space-based exoplanet hunter. Now it's found its 1st Earth-sized world orbiting a nearby star. The discovery bodes well, scientists say, for finding more similar worlds in the near future. Read more.

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Greenland is falling apart

From The Atlantic … Since 1972, the ice sheet has lost 11 quadrillion pounds of water and about half that ice melted in the past 8 years. Read more.
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Tonight … Find Hercules between 2 bright stars

The bright stars Arcturus and Vega can help you find the constellation Hercules and its famous Keystone asterism. Read more.

Moon and Jupiter beam on a lake

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Wonderful image of the moon and Jupiter (lower left) from our friend Steven Sweet of Lunar 101-Moon Book. See Jupiter's separate, small beam on the lake? Steven is in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He caught this image on April 23. Thank you, Steven!
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