Two meteor showers will grace the night sky in December, one of which is known to produce many bright shooting stars. First on tap is the Geminid meteor shower, and it will be followed by a month-end meteor shower known as Ursids. When to See the Geminid Meteor Shower The annual Geminid meteor shower often …
Two meteor showers to light up the December sky. Here’s how to see shooting stars. Read More »
In the evening of Wednesday (December 7) and until the wee hours of Thursday (December 8), Mars will be directly opposite the sun in the sky in an astronomical arrangement called an opposition. Mars will be in the Taurus constellation in opposition and will be visible for most of the night, peaking around midnight local …
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If you were to look at the night sky, it could range from a dusty glow to an inky expanse with thousands of twinkling stars, depending on where you are. On a clear night, estimates suggest that a few thousand stars are visible to the naked eye, but the glare of light pollution from city …
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Enlarge / Observing a BlueWalker 3 pass from Oukaimeden Observatory on November 16, 2022. The bright star in the lower left is Zeta Puppis. CLEOsat/Oukaimeden Observatory/IAU CPS/AE Kaeouach Last month, a Texas-based company announced that it had successfully deployed the largest ever commercial communications satellite into low Earth orbit. This BlueWalker 3 demonstration satellite measures …
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Saturn is above 30° in the south at dusk in early December. But catch it early, because the ringed planet sets at 10 p.m. local time on December 1 and 8 p.m. local time on December 31. Saturn is found in eastern Capricorn and begins the month at magnitude 0.7, dropping to magnitude 0.8 on …
