July 14 - Today's Big Earthquakes, Pluto Opposition

July 14 Today's Big Earthquakes, Pluto Opposition by:

The red dot indicates a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia on July 14, 2019, and the largest orange dot indicates the 6.6-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Australia, also today. Map via USGS. Read more.

Big earthquakes today in Australia and Indonesia Today's 2 strong earthquakes - the first a 6.6-magnitude off the western coast of Australia and the second a 7.3-magnitude in Indonesia - happened along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Read more. Today in 2015: New Horizons at Pluto The small, fast-moving New Horizons spacecraft is likely to be the only Pluto mission in the lifetimes of many of us. It changed forever the way we on Earth perceive this outermost world and its moons. Read more. We go between the sun and Pluto today This is Pluto's yearly opposition. Telescope users spot it by locating its star field and watching nightly for the object that moves. Details and photos here. If you want to see it, you'll need at least an 8-inch telescope; plus here's a sky-ready, black-and-white chart showing its location. Uranus, Neptune, Pluto: A longer view Astronomer Guy Ottewell describes his awesome book, which provides the best charts anywhere! Preview here. Full moon coming up July 16 Full moon falls on July 16 at 21:38 UTC. Read more. This full moon will undergo a partial lunar eclipse on July 16-17.

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Tonight … Moon and Jupiter Now the moon has swept past Jupiter, but you'll still find the planet easily as the brightest light in the moon's vicinity. Read more.

Saturn, Jupiter and a distant star cloud View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Dr Ski in Valencia, Philippines, captured this image on July 10. It's Saturn, Jupiter, and Sagittarius B2, the molecular cloud near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This cloud is the "steam" you see coming out of the famous Teapot pattern in the constellation Sagittarius. He wrote: "I indicated the time it would take to reach those destinations, if you could travel at the speed of light!" By the way, the moon will soon pass Saturn in our sky. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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