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Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury
2026-06-12
To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won't need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you'll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In …
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Rocket Launches
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LaunchedLong March 5 | TJSW-25Success
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LaunchedHASTE | CurveballDeployed
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LaunchedFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-44Success
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LaunchedH3-30 | H3-30 Test FlightSuccess
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7h 26minFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-54Go
Space Weather
NOAA
AIA 193 A (Corona) (SDO)
Earth (EPIC/DSCOVR) — 2026-06-09
Moon Phase
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Waning Crescent
7.5% illuminated
Next Full Moon
29. Jun (17d)
Next New Moon
14. Jun (3d)
Meteor Showers
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Delta Aquariids 48dPeak: 30. Jul 2026 ZHR: ~25 41 km/s96P/Machholz
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Perseids 61dPeak: 12. Aug 2026 ZHR: ~100 59 km/s109P/Swift-Tuttle
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Draconids 118dPeak: 8. Oct 2026 ZHR: ~10 20 km/s21P/Giacobini-Zinner
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Orionids 131dPeak: 21. Oct 2026 ZHR: ~20 66 km/s1P/Halley
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Leonids 158dPeak: 17. Nov 2026 ZHR: ~15 71 km/s55P/Tempel-Tuttle
Near-Earth Asteroids
CNEOSNext 14 days, < 0.1 AU
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2026 LK12026-Jun-12 21:4 2.3 LD 895.886 km 5.8 km/s
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2026 LV2026-Jun-16 05:2 3.1 LD 1.203.692 km 5.6 km/s
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2003 LN62026-Jun-18 20:5 3.7 LD 1.416.916 km 3.9 km/s
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2026 LF12026-Jun-13 09:4 5 LD 1.940.276 km 10.3 km/s
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2026 LH12026-Jun-14 10:0 6.8 LD 2.627.707 km 20.6 km/s
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2025 WC42026-Jun-21 04:0 10.2 LD 3.901.841 km 19.2 km/s
LD = Lunar Distances (384.400 km)
New Papers
arXiv- Closure-channel identifiability and two-channel recovery in monatomic kinetic normal shocks
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- TBD LBD: The nature of `little blue dots'
- Unification models of Active Galactic Nuclei
- Bar-induced migration of $\omega$ Centauri away from Gaia Sausage-Enceladus
Astronomer's Telegrams
ATel- #17840 A candidate NIR counterpart of the new X-ray transient EP260531a and indications of a black-hole accretor from archival X-ray data
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- #17838 TRAPPIST production rates of comet 220P/McNaught in outburst
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- #17836 Extraordinary radio flaring activity of X-ray binary Cyg X-3 in 2026
- #17835 FSRQ OQ 334: Upper limits from a neutrino search with IceCube
Current Comets
Heavens-Above| Comet | Mag | Constellation | Alt |
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| C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS | 9.7 | Monoceros | -29.1° |
| 88P Howell | 11.2 | Pisces | 32.3° |
| 220P McNaught | 11.6 | Pisces | 36.8° |
| C/2023 R1 PANSTARRS | 12.0 | Ophiuchus | 3.6° |
| 29P Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 | 13.5 | Leo | -39.7° |
| 10P Tempel 2 | 13.5 | Capricornus | 24.1° |
| C/2021 G2 Atlas | 14.1 | Hercules | 17.6° |
| C/2024 J3 ATLAS | 14.1 | Cygnus | 57.3° |
Live Services
Latest Publications (peer-reviewed)
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- ApJ Electron-capture Supernova Candidates from Light Curves: Implications for Their Progenitors and Explosion Properties Masato Sato, Nozomu Tominaga, Sergei I. Blinnikov, Marat Sh.
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- ApJL From Interfilamentary Gas to Filaments and Hubs: Gas Flows in the Monoceros R2 Hub–Filament System Jihye Hwang, Doris Arzoumanian, Yoshito Shimajiri, Masahiro
- ApJL Eccentricity as a Signature of Hierarchical Subsolar-mass Mergers in Collapsar Disks Jiaxi Wu, Elias R. Most, Nils L. Vu, Nils Deppe, Lawrence E.
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