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The peak of the solar eclipse, August 21.8.2017, 13 as seen from near Nashville, Tennessee at around 27:XNUMX PM Central USA time. Photo: Shay Blizovsky

Solar eclipse, USA 2017 - report and personal experiences from Nashville Tennessee

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A bright meteor in the Giraffe Shower, May 24, 2014, as photographed from Duluth, Minnesota. Photo: Bob King, universe today

Report from the US: Giraffe meteor shower was sparse but produced some beautiful slow meteors

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Leon Foucault. From Wikipedia

Leon Foucault: invented astronomical photography; who included the telescopes, developed the gyroscope and demonstrated the rotation of the earth using a pendulum

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Saturn is at its closest point to the Earth tonight and being opposite the Sun and bright it will be visible throughout the night

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An image created using Starry Night software shows what Comet ISON will look like in the evening sky after sunset on November 29, 2013 from the UK

The bright comet Ison may provide a celestial display in about a year - if it does not disintegrate near the sun

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Artist's rendering of a near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: ESA - P.Carril

An asteroid will pass on the night between Sunday and Monday behind the orbit of the moon: link to a live broadcast of the transit

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Radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36. Photo: NASA / GSFC / UA

NASA wants your help in finding asteroids

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