For enthusiastic meteor watchers, it has been a long stretch — nearly 16 weeks — since there has been a decent opportunity to catch sight of a reasonably good meteor shower. Now's your chance.
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In late April, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrid meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun.
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Thousands of Australians are invited to help set a new Guinness World Record for the most people stargazing at multiple venues.
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The spring Lyrid meteor shower peaks with up to 20 meteors per hour shortly after midnight on Saturday into early Sunday (April 22).
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See the most spectacular photos of Lyrid meteors, pieces of Comet Thatcher that rain down on Earth every year in April.
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A new prediction for the end of the world sets the apocalypse date as Monday, April 23, based on a mishmash of old numerology, re-readings of the biblical Book of Revelation and rehashed conspiracy theories about a rogue "Planet X."
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Now that Venus is finally gaining prominence in the evening sky, it will team with the moon (on April 17), the Pleiades (on April 24) and more, making for some eye-catching configurations.
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See photos of planetary conjunctions and other astronomical events captured by amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Victor Rogus in March and April of 2018.
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The constellation of Orion is teeming with nebulas in this colorful deep-space image.
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Every spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the obscuring stars, gas and dust of our own Milky Way galaxy vacate the night sky, leaving a literal window of opportunity for skywatchers to peer at distant galaxies.
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