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May full moon 2025: The Flower Moon hides the red star Antares

The Full Flower Moon of 2025 will occur in the eastern U.S. during the evening hours of May 12. Two days later, the just-past-full moon will occult the star Antares.

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April full moon 2025: The Pink Moon hides one of the brightest stars in the sky

The full moon of April 2025, called the Pink Moon, will occur during the evening hours of April 12 and will occult the star Spica in the Virgo constellation this month.

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Perihelion: What is it and when does it occur?

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around (peri) the sun (helios).

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March full moon 2025: The Worm Moon wriggles into a total lunar eclipse

The full moon of March 2024, the Worm Moon, will experience a penumbral lunar eclipse as it passes through the outer part of Earth's shadow.

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Saturn: Everything you need to know about the sixth planet from the sun

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system. We explore this gas giant in more detail here.

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January full moon 2025: The Wolf Moon hides Mars

The full Wolf Moon of January 2025 occurs on Jan. 13 and will pass in front of Mars during a lunar occultation visible from North America.

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What is the theory of general relativity? Understanding Einstein's space-time revolution

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is based on the idea that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.

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What are Dyson spheres, and how do we look for them?

Learn who first thought of the idea for Dyson spheres, as well as how they work and how we search for them with infrared telescopes.

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Project Mercury: America's 1st crewed space program

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights.

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The best 39 hi-fi speakers of What Hi-Fi?'s lifetime

We reminisce about the very best stereo speakers we have reviewed since 1976

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Donald "Deke" Slayton: Mercury astronaut who waited more than a decade to fly to space

Slayton made his first space flight in 1975 as the Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission.

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