Partly cloudy skies and cool overnight with diminishing snow showers in the plains but continuing snow in the mountains. Lows will dip into the teens and 20s in most areas. Partly to mostly cloudy skies Saturday with afternoon and evening snow showers and possibly a snow squall or two with brief heavy snow.

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven image-processing techniques," according to Northwestern University. Gemini Observatory and European Southern Observatory imaging data was used. Video is looped several times Credit: Jason Wang/CIERA/Northwestern University

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