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This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 19 – 28
19 Jun 2026 at 8:42amThe Moon as it will appear in an amateur telescope at 10 p.m. EDT Friday the 19th. This week Venus and Jupiter continue moving apart low in the western twilight. Vega and Arcturus shine equally high after dark. And watch Beta Lyrae self-eclipse.
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Read more...“Shadow Blaster” Galaxy Might Have Sent High-Energy Neutrino to Earth
18 Jun 2026 at 12:00pmA star-forming galaxy in the early universe might have sent a ghostly particle known as a neutrino crashing into the ice at Earth’s South Pole, after an 11 billion-year journey through space.
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Read more..."Little Red Dot" Is a Cocooned Black Hole
16 Jun 2026 at 12:00pmA deep spectrum of a mysterious "little red dot" reveals a supermassive black hole cocooned in gas so dense it's opaque — but glowing in the infrared.
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Read more...Did A Moon-Size Planet Grow Fast and Die Young in the Early Solar System?
12 Jun 2026 at 1:05pmA rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert could be a fragment of a Moon-size body that met a violent end in the earliest days of the solar system.
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Read more...Revival of Australia’s Molonglo Radio Telescope
11 Jun 2026 at 12:00pmAustralia's Molonglo Observatory was saved from retirement; now, it holds the promise of future radio observations.
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Read more...Meet Callisto, Jupiter's Ancient Moon
10 Jun 2026 at 12:00pmMeet Callisto, the heavily cratered moon that's the most distant of the Galilean satellites from Jupiter.
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Read more...Alan Hale (1958-2026)
9 Jun 2026 at 7:42pmAstronomer and comet-hunter Alan Hale passed away on Saturday, June 6th, at 68 years old in his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.
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Read more...Amazon's Satellites Are Impacting Astronomy
9 Jun 2026 at 12:53pmThe satellites being launched by Amazon are brighter than IAU-recommended limits — which means they'll interfere with astronomy.
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