both planets are actually a comparable shade of greenish blue. well, to help us understand this, i mjoined by professor catherine heymans. she s the astronomer royal for scotland, and a professor of astrophysics at the university of edinburgh. hello to you. thank you very much forjoining us. hello to you. thank you very much forjoining m hello to you. thank you very much forjoining ve for “oining us. please explain, why did forjoining us. please explain, why did we think forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they were forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they were these - did we think they were these different colours to begin with? these images that we are used to seeing are from the voyager two nation. it was a nasa spacecraft that was launched in the late 70s and took images of uranus and neptune in the late 80s by the time it got there. now, the way you and i see colour is we have photo re
we begin this hour with the urgent and dangerous situations that are unfolding today as we begin this new year here on the southern border and in the middle east. a memorial for kassam soleimani is the scene where hundreds are dead and over a hundred injuries that as hezbollah warns that they have their finger on the trigger following the killing of a senior hamas leader in beirut. pete hegseth and trey yingst are standing by with more. first, there are dozens of house republicans, you have seen them in the moments, getting off the buses. they re at the southern border right now. fox has confirmed that next week the much-discussed impeachment hearing for alejandro mayorkas who is in charge of our border with the homeland security under his watch, that hearing for his impeachment will get underway. moments ago, karine jean-pierre blamed republicans for the record surge every day, every month is a new record in the numbers of people that cross our border. we re about to hear fr
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
massive caravan fuelling. all mayors agree on one thing. the federal government needs to stop dithering. coming up, we ll hear from a texas republican, tony gonzalez, who says there s one simple thing we can be doing right now. welcome, i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is your world. the congressman coming up. first to nate foy on the growing crisis. nate? a caravan with an estimated 8,000 migrants is making its way to our southern border right now. sanctuary city mayors are again asking president joe biden to do more to help them. states across the entire country deal with this crisis. texas governor greg abbott continues bussing and now flying migrants to sanctuary cities. only a fraction of what texas and other border states deal with. take a look at this. the southern border is on pace for the most migrant encounters ever in a single month with 250,000 so far in december alone. that includes over 35,000 during the four-day christmas weekend. now new york c
hit the campaign trail in iowa today. getting brand new reporting on the former president s strategy there and how it might play nationwide. and we have wild pictures out of iceland, just look at this, when a volcano began erupting overnight. it would be beautiful if it wasn t so destructive and dangerous. an update on what is happening there now. and new law in texas making it a state crime to enter illegally from mexico. the details after the increase in crossing at the attorney border. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan. john is off. this is news central. and today, it is all about iowa. nearly all of the 2024 republican presidential candidates will be in the state. and ready to rumble. they have no time to lose. less than a month until the caucuses. and that is translating into more face time with caucusgoers. more money going to ads, more money going to bolster every campaign s ground game to get iowans to turn out and caucus on january 15th. and this morning cnn ha