When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

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Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

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There were a lot of wrestlers that were considered underrated during ECW's tenure, but none more deserving than Chris Candido ...

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An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.

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