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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...

Sky This Month: December 2022

Saturn is over 30° excessive within the south at nightfall in early December. However catch it early, because the ringed planet units by...

The Sky This Week from November 25 to December 2

Wednesday, November 30 First Quarter Moon happens at 9:27 A.M. EST, when the lunar floor seems precisely 50 p.c lit. A number of hours...

Sky This Month: November 2022

Search for Neptune about 6.5° west-southwest of Jupiter, due south of the Circlet of Pisces. You possibly can spot the magnitude 7.7 planet...

Ask Astro: Why do the giant planets spin faster than the terrestrial

Why do the enormous planets rotate a lot sooner than the terrestrial planets in our solar system?  Jim Repass  Clinton, Washington  We nonetheless don’t totally perceive...

Exploring the rippling dunes of our solar system

That flight depends on wind pace: Wind tunnel experiments counsel that getting a grain of sand shifting on Mars takes a gust 10...

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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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