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The Sky This Week from February 17 to 24

Monday, February 20 New Moon happens at 2:06 A.M. EST, leaving the sky darkish, moonless, and excellent for observing fainter phenomena just like the...

The Sky This Week from February 10 to 17

Tuesday, February 14 Venus sidles as much as Neptune within the night twilight because the planets put together for tomorrow’s conjunction. An hour after...

The Sky This Week from February 3 to 10

Saturday, February 4 The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest level from Earth in its orbit, at 3:55 A.M. EST. At the moment, it's going...

Unlocking the mystery of comets

Ruining perfection Many historic cultures noticed comets as harbingers of doom and catastrophe. The predictable motions of the planets, the Solar, and the Moon,...

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°...

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...

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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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