The longest total solar eclipse visible from land until 2114 will sweep across Spain and North Africa on August 2, 2027. Here’s how to choose where to watch it.

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This month we’ve got three big celestial events to cover: eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and especially good prospects for the Perseid meteor shower. Plus we’ll track down a few planets, and gaze at the center of our galaxy. So load up on the bug juice, and come along on this month’s Sky Tour.

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Asteroid 44 Nysa has the weirdest shape yet seen for an asteroid, and that’s saying something.

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Once the bright Moon is out of the evening sky by Monday or so, use Altair high in the southeast to find little Delphinus and Sagitta roughly a fist at arm's length from it.

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New analysis of observations taken in 2024 confirm a stellar companion for Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion.

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Astronomers have long thought supermassive black holes can escape their home galaxies — now they've found one roaming its host's galactic outskirts.

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The only total solar eclipse of the year coincides with the Perseid meteor shower. Here's what you need to know to watch the eclipse.

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Ash from countless volcanic eruptions on Io have likely built up its porous surface.

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The waxing gibbous Moon passes Antares. Turn the Summer Triangle into the Summer Diamond. And as you snuggle into bed, would Vega land on your roof if it dropped out of the sky?

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When a meteorite tore through a New Jersey home, the homeowner quickly preserved the fragments. Now, they're giving scientists a look at Earth's early history.

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This periodic visitor is now bright enough to see in binoculars from a dark sky. We also report on a bright supernova in Ursa Major.

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Astronomers have found a Jupiter-mass world orbiting a brown dwarf that orbits a star.

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Observations of remote cosmic explosions reveal that the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way might extend farther out than previously thought.

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The crescent Moon visits Venus in twilight. After dark, we're in the peak month for "the Orion of Summer" with its Cat's Eyes. And cold-weather Cassiopeia is already poking up.

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A team of astronomers have discovered helium escaping from a rocky planet, marking the first detection of an atmosphere on a rocky world.

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Two teams of astronomers independently discovered a third giant gas planet orbiting in the famous Beta Pictoris system.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the launch of Reflect Orbital's Earendil 1 satellite — a space mirror 18 meters wide designed to reflect sunlight to the ground.

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"Rogue" Neptune-size worlds might not roam the galaxy totally on their own, just very far away from their parent stars.

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The sharp-eyed and far-seeing Euclid space telescope has picked up 31 early quasars that have evaded detection until now.

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The bright, distinctive pattern of Upper Scorpius is on its best display in the south right after nightfall. Telescopic treasures await. In the west, Regulus now departs from Venus.

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