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1 day ago | earthsky.org | Deborah Byrd

BREAKING: Eyewitness video from Lacey Township, New Jersey shows massive 1,200-acre Jones Road Wildfire burning; evacuations and road closures underway. [image or embed]— AZ Intel (@azintel.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 7:15 PMAs of this morning (April 23, 2025), the massive wildfire that began burning in Ocean County, New Jersey, yesterday has burned thousands of acres, forced thousands of evacuations and closed several roads, according to the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia.

1 week ago | earthsky.org | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Spaceflight Watch Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. The launch window will open at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Monday, April 14. An international pop star and former host of the popular television series American Idol, Katy Perry, will be among the all-female crew due to launch April 14, 2025. It’ll be Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. The mission, NS-31, is set to be a historic one. It’ll be the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963.

1 week ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Space Your support = more science, more stars, more wonder. Donate to EarthSky and be part of something bigger. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might mark the first time astronomers have witnessed a parent star consuming one of its own planets. And it appears the doomed world was pulled down to its demise. It’s a long-held belief among astronomers that aging sunlike stars will swell into red giants and consume their innermost planets.

1 week ago | earthsky.org | Shuang-Ye Wu

Earth Extreme storms form thanks to moisture and atmospheric instability. These two ingredients are common in the central U.S. in spring. Climate change means more warm air, and warm air holds more moisture, leading to wetter and stronger storms. The most significant warming occurs near the surface, while the upper atmosphere is cooling. This can increase the instability that triggers strong storms.

2 weeks ago | earthsky.org | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Space Your support = more science, more stars, more wonder. Donate to EarthSky and be part of something bigger. A mere 150 light-years distant, two white dwarf stars are in a dance of death. Researchers at the University of Warwick in the U.K. said on April 4, 2025, that they’ve spotted two stars on a collision course, and the resulting supernova would be brighter than 10 full moons in our sky. White dwarfs are the depleted but superdense remains of stars like our sun.