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• 23 Feb 2022 (Yesterday): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (9 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (8 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (7 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (6 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (5 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (5 days ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (4 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (4 days ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (3 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (3 days ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (29 minutes ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (23 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (22 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (21 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (20 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (2 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (2 days ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (19 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (18 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (17 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (16 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (15 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (14 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (13 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (12 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (11 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (10 hours ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (1 hour ago): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:33 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (2 minutes away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:30 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (27 minutes away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 23:05 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (58 minutes away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 22:34 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (1 hour away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 21:34 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (2 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 20:54 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (3 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 19:38 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• Cosmic flashes pinpointed to a surprising location in space

  23-02-2022 19:35
  Astronomers have been surprised by the closest source of mysterious flashes in the sky called fast radio bursts. Precision measurements with radio telescopes reveal that the bursts are made among old stars, and in a way that no one was expecting. The source of the flashes, in nearby spiral galaxy M 81, is the closest of its kind to Earth.
  
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• Colossal black holes locked in dance at heart of galaxy

  23-02-2022 19:35
  A sinusoidal light curve spanning 45 years points to the presence of orbiting supermassive black holes at the core of a distant galaxy.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (4 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 18:34 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• Fast Radio Burst's Unlikely Home Puzzles Astronomers

  23-02-2022 18:20
  
  Astronomers have found a fast radio burst — presumably a flash from a young stellar remnant — amongst the ancient stars of a globular cluster, challenging ideas about what produces these enigmatic flashes.
  The post Fast Radio Burst's Unlikely Home Puzzles Astronomers appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (5 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 17:47 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (6 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 17:03 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• Astronomers map mysterious element in space

  23-02-2022 16:49
  A research team has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the evolution of our galaxy.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (7 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 15:52 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 'Tatooine-like' exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescope

  23-02-2022 14:58
  A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope. The planet, called Kepler-16b, has so far only been seen using the Kepler space telescope. It orbits around two stars, with the two orbits also orbiting one another, forming a binary star system.
  
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• Galaxy collision creates 'space triangle' in new Hubble image

  23-02-2022 14:58
  A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
  
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• Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasers

  23-02-2022 14:54
  Space travel can be agonizingly slow: For example, the New Horizons probe took almost 10 years to reach Pluto. Traveling to Proxima Centauri b, the closest habitable planet to Earth, would require thousands of years with even the biggest rockets. Now, researchers calculate that low-power lasers on Earth could launch and maneuver small probes equipped with silicon or boron nitride sails, propelling them to much faster speeds than rocket engines.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (8 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 14:51 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (9 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 13:45 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (10 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 13:08 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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• 23 Feb 2022 (11 hours away): Moon at Last Quarter

  23-02-2022 11:45 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon rises in the east at around midnight and appears high in the sky at sunrise.
  
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