October’s full moon, called the Hunter’s Moon, will rise tonight (Oct. 13), reaching its peak fullness at 5:08 p.m. ET. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hunters-moon-2019.html
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This weekend’s Full Hunter’s Moon
The legacy of the Harvest and Hunter’s Moons are the grand procession of moonlit nights in the season of waning daylight. In 2019, watch for the full, or nearly full moon, around October 11, 12, 13 and maybe even 14. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/full-hunters-moon-from-dusk-till-dawn…
All you need to know: 2019’s Hunter’s Moon
The coming full moon – Hunter’s Moon for the Northern Hemisphere – is October 12-13. Will it be bigger, brighter, more colorful? All you need to know here. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-hunters-moon…
Use Big Dipper to find North Star
The 2 outermost stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris, the North Star. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/use-big-dipper-to-find-polaris-the-north-star…
Sensor used at CERN could help gravitational wave hunters
It started with a relatively simple goal: create a prototype for a new kind of device to monitor the motion of underground structures at CERN. But the project—the result of a collaboration between CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia—quickly evolved. The prototype turned into several full-blown devices that can potentially serve as early warning systems…
Arecibo gets $19M grant to find and study NEOs
NEOs are near-Earth objects, asteroids and small comets that sweep near Earth and have the potential to cause harm. Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has, since the 1990s, been finding about 60 to 120 of these objects every year. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/arecibo-observatory-19-million-grant-neos…
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson on rival shows
The former Ghost Hunters duo have found themselves presenting competing shows on separate channels. Hawes and Wilson – two plumbers with a passion for… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329637/jason-hawes-and-grant-wilson-on-rival-shows…
Find M4 near the Scorpion’s Heart
If you’ve never found a deep-sky object on your own before, M4 – a globular star cluster, one of the nearest to our solar system – is a grand place to start. It’s near the bright red star Antares in the easy-to-spot constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. To spot it, you’ll need a dark sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/find-m4-a-globular-cluster-by-the-scorpions-heart…
Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic
The ice age hyenas may have hunted caribou and horses, or scavenged carcasses of mammoths on a cold treeless tundra, says a study of 2 fossil teeth. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/ancient-hyenas-roame-arctic-tooth-fossils…
‘Ghost Hunters’ TV show is back from the dead
The show, which was discontinued back in 2016, is set for a revival alongside the return of a familiar face. One of most popular paranormal TV shows t… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328747/ghost-hunters-tv-show-is-back-from-the-dead…