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A bright fireball lit up the evening sky near Mount Fuji in Japan. The meteor was filmed on February 1, around 9:05 pm local ...

Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...