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Lots of reports of Northern Lights tonight - check your northern sky!
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Jersey Skies: Giant planet appearing at midnight
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Jersey Skies: Giant planet appearing at midnight
Our view of Jupiter will improve over the next several weeks. It will move westward and rise earlier and earlier.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Jersey Skies: From Tycho’s nova to today’s supernovas
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Jersey Skies: From Tycho’s nova to today’s supernovas
Tycho Brahe, the famous Danish astronomer, stepped outside on the night of Nov. 11, 1572. He looked up at the northern sky and noticed there was a bright new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. This was an astonishing event for someone in the 16th century. At the time, the ideas of the Greek philosopher and... Read more »
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!

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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Jersey Skies: Osiris lives on!
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Jersey Skies: Osiris lives on
NASA’s Osiris spacecraft flew past Earth in September 2023. As it swung past us at a distance of 63,000 miles, it dropped off an important package.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Jersey Skies: meteors and comets
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Jersey Skies: meteors and comets
The Orionid meteor shower is active this week. These “shooting stars” seem to come from the well-known constellation Orion.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Jersey Skies: A pair of small comets appear in the evening sky
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Jersey Skies: A pair of small comets
Two small comets are starting to make an appearance in the evening sky. Both Comet SWAN and Comet Lemmon were discovered earlier this year and can be seen in the western sky.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Jersey Skies: See Pegasus, Andromeda and a galaxy! 🔭
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Jersey Skies: See Pegasus, Andromeda and a galaxy
Now that we are well into the fall season, the constellations Pegasus and Andromeda have risen up high into the eastern sky.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Jersey Skies: Probing the sun 🔭
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Jersey Skies: Probing the sun
On Sept. 15, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 25th successful flyby of the sun. It passed only 3.8 million miles from the solar surface at a speed of 430,000 miles per hour. The spacecraft will...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Jersey Skies: Saturn draws near!
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Jersey Skies: Saturn draws near
Saturn is in opposition now. At this point Saturn is opposite of the sun in our sky, so it rises near sunset. Then the planet is in the sky all night long. You will find it high in the southern sky at...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Jersey Skies: Space telescope reveals glittering young stars
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Jersey Skies: Space telescope reveals glittering young stars
NASA scientists recently pointed the Web Space Telescope towards the constellation Scorpius and focused it on the Lobster Nebula.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Jersey Skies: A new moon for Uranus!
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Jersey Skies: A new moon for Uranus
The Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting around Uranus.
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September 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Pegasus gallops into the evening sky!

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Jersey Skies: As summer falls, Pegasus rises
if you want to see Pegasus, face the eastern sky around 9 p.m. There are four stars here in the shape of a square. This is known as the Great Square of Pegasus.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Jersey Skies: Checking in on the Europa Clipper probe... 🔭
Jersey Skies: Checking in on the Europa Clipper probe
Almost a year ago, NASA launched a probe towards Jupiter's moon Europa. The Europa Clipper has made good progress since then.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Jersey Skies: Saturn, the Moon and the Perseid meteor shower! 🔭
Jersey Skies: Saturn and the Moon
Saturn is moving further west and is therefore rising earlier and earlier. This week is a good one to spot the ringed planet. The gibbous moon will be near the planet on Aug. 11 and 12. Face the southeast sky around 11 p.m. The moon should be obvious as it rises higher in the sky.... Read more »
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August 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Jersey Skies: A visitor from beyond!🔭
Jersey Skies: A visitor from beyond
You may have heard about the recent discovery of a comet that is not from our neighborhood. Comet Atlas was seen about a month ago. It is named for the telescope system that was used to discover it, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System or ATLAS. Astronomers quickly realized this was no ordinary object. Its... Read more »
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August 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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"Industry and Government: AI is amazing, it'll change our lives and make everyone more productive. We must all do it and use it in everything!"

This is very much like the way people viewed electricity when it arrived in useful form for the masses: Everything could be cured using it!
An old newspaper ad from the early 20th century showing an electrical device of some kind in a box with two handles attached to cords coming from it; the caption reads "CURE YOURSELF BY ELECTRICITY if you suffer from neuralgia, constipation, nervousness, headache..."
August 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Jersey Skies: The Moon and Mars
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Jersey Skies: The Moon and Mars
We’ve had a nice view of the red planet this year, but now it is sinking fast. Earth is closer to the sun than Mars, so it is moving faster. We are leaving Mars behind, and it is getting closer to the sun and closer to our western horizon. At the beginning of the week,... Read more »
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July 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Jersey Skies: The Milky Way spills across the evening sky
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Jersey Skies: The Milky Way spills across the evening sky
This is a great time of year to look for the Milky Way. All the stars we see at night of course are part of our Milky Way — the huge collection of gas, dust and stars that we live inside.
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July 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Jersey Skies: Saturn after midnight
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Jersey Skies: Saturn after midnight
Saturn is now visible after about 12:30 a.m. depending on how good of a view you have of the eastern horizon.
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July 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Jersey Skies: The flight of a dragonfly in 2028!
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Jersey Skies: The flight of a dragonfly in 2028
Three years from now, NASA plans to launch a unique spacecraft into the outer solar system. On July 5, 2028, the Dragonfly spacecraft will lift off onboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. Dragonfly will be an ...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Jersey Skies: Earth is 94.5 million miles from the sun this week!
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Jersey Skies: Earth is 94.5 million miles from the sun
The next time you find yourself sweaty and uncomfortable on a hot humid day, don’t bad-mouth the planet’s orbit, blame the Earth’s axis.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Jersey Skies: Mars meets the heart of the Lion
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Jersey Skies: Mars meets the heart of the Lion
Mars is meeting Leo the Lion, and the summer solstice is happening Friday.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Jersey Skies: A Chinese asteroid mission lifts off...
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Jersey Skies: Chinese mission to visit asteroid
Launched on May 28, the Tianwen 2 will reach its destination one year from now. The mission’s target is an asteroid named Kamoʻoalewa.
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June 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Jersey Skies: Mars meets the Lion!
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Jersey Skies: Mars meets the Lion
Mars has been moving towards the constellation Leo over the past few weeks. The Resilience lander will reach the lunar surface on June 5.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM