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Tomorrow's total solar eclipse will only be visible in its entirety to ground-based observers watching from northern Australia, but ESA's Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite will have a ringside seat from its orbit around Earth.

This month, Mars grows closer, bigger and brighter as it reaches opposition to the Sun on Jan. 29th Look for the red planet rising in the east after sunset. Its the brightest object in the eastern sky!