Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

The crescent moon will appear to align with Venus and Jupiter shortly after sunset Thursday, an alignment that will be visible from the heart of cities to the dark sky parks in remote corners of ...

The Sky Today, June 5, 2024. Story by Nyssa Grazda • 6mo. At 1:09 a.m.: The moon is sextile Neptune and the moon void of course ... The moon then enters Gemini and its dark moon phase in the run ...

Monday, July 26, 2021: Moon and Jupiter. Jupiter is now dominating the night sky a couple of hours after dark, shining brightly at a magnitude of -2.8 in the southeastern sky.

Astrotourism is coming to Canada, thanks to an ambitious plan for a chain of six dark-sky sites along 100 miles of the ...

Look to the skies on Thursday night and you can see something unusual: the ‘Moon illusion’, which happens when our satellite ...

Tuesday, August 18 New Moon occurs today at 10:42 P.M. EDT. That makes it a great day to seek out dim objects that are too hard to see when the Moon brightens the background sky.

The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the summer constellations will be rising.

An arcsecond is a very small angle on the sky; the full moon is more than two million square arcseconds in area.) A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2 .

The Moon reaches perigee — the nearest point to Earth in its orbit — at 1:28 P.M. EDT. At that time, it will stand 225,797 miles (363,385 km) from our planet.

Does Texas have any dark sky communities for stargazing? A super new moon won't be seen in Texas, but stars will be brighter than ever Saturday. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise ...