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Sky This Month: January 2023

Jupiter shines brightly within the southwest these winter evenings. It begins the month at magnitude –2.4 and slips by solely 0.2 magnitude by...

The Sky This Week from December 30 to January 6

Sunday, January 1 Comfortable 2023! Beginning immediately, Astronomy is happy to announce that Sky This Week is dropped at you by Celestron, a famend...

The Sky This Week from December 23 to 30

Tuesday, December 27 Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) continues its trek close to the North Celestial Pole, now 5° from Polaris and fewer than 4°...

EarthSky | Mercury after sunset: Greatest elongation December 21

Mercury has been exhibiting up within the night sky from the second week of December. It reaches biggest elongation on December 21, 2022....

Hubble captures star-studded clouds in Lagoon Nebula

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an astronomical workhorse for greater than 30 years. Over that point, it’s captured greater than 1.5 million...

The Sky This Week from December 16 to 23

Tuesday, December 20 It is a nice week to get pleasure from naked-eye open clusters, so let’s now flip to Coma Berenices, greatest seen...

Artemis 1 splashes down safely, completes historic Moon mission

NASA’s 25-day Artemis 1 mission got here to a profitable shut on Sunday (Dec. 11) with a splashdown off Mexico’s Baja California coast...

The Sky This Week from December 2 to 9

Tuesday, December 6 Early-morning observers will simply spot the brightest star within the sky, Sirius, sinking within the southwest a couple of hours earlier...

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See 6 planets in late August and early September

See 6 planets earlier than dawn Possibly you’ve already seen Jupiter and Mars within the morning sky? They’re simply...

Voyager 2: Our 1st and last visit to Neptune

Reprinted from NASA. Voyager 2 passes by Neptune, 35 years in the past Thirty-five years in the past, on August...

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