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What’s Up In the sky for April 2025? Venus, Lyrids Meteor Shower and more

Wtop 01 Apr 2025
The Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place during the month and the Moon has some nice pairings with stars and planets ... It is also the smallest angular diameter Full Moon of 2025 which means it is the farthest Full Moon from Earth for 2025 — 406,295 km.
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SpaceX Polar Mission: Cryptocurrency Investor Leads Private Astronaut Crew

Gulf News 01 Apr 2025
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight mission to fly over the Earth's polar regions, ... Bloomberg's inside stories of investments beyond Earth, from satellite networks to moon landings.
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Now, IISc team develops lunar brick repair solution using bacteria

The Times of India 01 Apr 2025
Rather than transporting building materials from Earth at enormous cost, astronauts would utilise the Moon’s abundant “regolith” – the layer of loose soil and broken rock covering the lunar ...
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When will Pink Moon light up Michigan skies? What to know

Detroit Free Press 31 Mar 2025
The full moon will look smaller than average as it reaches its farthest point from Earth in its orbit, Timeanddate.com said ... When the moon moves into the inner part of Earth's shadow, or umbra, ...
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Minnesota Starwatch for April

Brainerd Dispatch 31 Mar 2025
Capella now shines above Jupiter, the brightest object in the evening sky after the moon ... This moon will be just three days past perigee, its closest approach to Earth in a cycle, so the crescent will be on the large side.
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April skygazing: A pink micromoon, the Lyrid meteor shower, and more

Popular Science 31 Mar 2025
April 1 and 2Jupiter and the Moon Visible near Taurus ... The moon’s elliptical orbit means that its distance from the Earth varies throughout the year.This month finds the moon at its apogee, which means that it’s as far away from us as it gets.
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Pharaoh Shepseskaf's Strange Tomb May Have An Astronomical Explanation

IFL Science 31 Mar 2025
But the path of totality is a lot trickier, as the Earth's rotation can change in response to factors like changing sea levels, earthquakes, and interactions between the Earth and the Moon. .
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When are Passover and Easter this year? Are they later than 'normal'?

staugustine.com 31 Mar 2025
Easter comes on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox ... It's the time when there are roughly the same number of hours of day and night on all parts of Earth, according to NASA.
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'A thrilling ride like no other': Williams, Wimore, and the view from Goddard's Worcester

The Gardner News 31 Mar 2025
Planet Earth is blue ... Between Worcester, Houston and the moon lies nearly a century of humanity's struggle to break loose from Earth's gravity and travel in orbit around our world, and to the moon ... The craft returned to Earth without them in September.
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Sky Shorts: Hubble marks 35 years of space exploration

The Alliance Review 30 Mar 2025
It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around Earth and positioned above Earth’s atmosphere giving astronomers and scientists an unobstructed view of the cosmos ... Planets and the moon. ... The Moon pairs with Mars on April 5.
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The wild, wacky, & wonderful things astronauts have taken to space

The Times of India 30 Mar 2025
A viral image of Sunita Williams' Ganesh murti aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has reignited curiosity – just like when Buzz Aldrin quietly took communion on the Moon ... 119745841Things left behind on the moon Human waste.
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Moon replica — 20 foot wide — coming to Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City

Newsday 30 Mar 2025
The moon is coming to a cathedral in Garden City ... Instead, Galileo declared, the moon is like Earth with a varied topography of mountains and valleys ... Instead, Galileo declared, the moon is like Earth with a varied topography of mountains and valleys.
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Enthusiasts watch partial solar eclipse as Moon covers the Sun

Dawn 30 Mar 2025
... rare total lunar eclipse, dubbed a “Blood Moon”. These events often happen after each other because the Moon has “completed a half-circle around the Earth in the meantime, reversing the configuration”.
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Enthusiasts in UK watch partial solar eclipse as Moon covers the Sun

Dawn 30 Mar 2025
... rare total lunar eclipse, dubbed a “Blood Moon”. These events often happen after each other because the Moon has “completed a half-circle around the Earth in the meantime, reversing the configuration”.
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Skygazers gather across northern hemisphere to glimpse partial solar eclipse

The Observer 30 Mar 2025
The phenomenon occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth ... moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere ... “As expected, the moon started moving in front of the sun about an ...
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