The Sky This Week from May 2 to 9: The Eta Aquariids peak
Eta Aquariid meteors streak across the sky away from the shower’s radiant, as seen above San Pedro de Atacama in ...
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The Sky This Week from April 25 to May 2: Venus at its brightest
Brilliant Venus (at center, just above the trees) rises in the early-morning starry sky above Babcock Wildlife Management Area in ...
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The Lyrid meteor shower peaks
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, April 18Jupiter still rules the early-evening skies, standing ...
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The Sky This Week from April 4 to 11, 2025
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, April 4This evening, the roughly half-illuminated face of ...
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The Sky This Week from March 28 to April 4 2025
The First Quarter Moon seems to float above planet Earth in this image snapped from the International Space Station. Credit: ...
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The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action
Jupiter is flanked by three of its four Galilean moons in this March 2015 image: Ganymede farthest left, Europa (closing ...
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The Sky This Week from March 14 to 21: The start of spring
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 14The Moon reaches Full phase early this ...
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The Sky This Week from March 7 to 14: A total lunar eclipse
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 7Look north after dark tonight to find ...
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The Moon joins the planets
March opens with Venus and Mercury visible in the evening sky, along with a delicate crescent Moon. Neptune is nearby ...
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The Sky This Week from February 21 to 28: Saturn and Mercury meet
Mercury and Saturn stand side by side in the early-evening sky near the end of February. Note that Neptune is ...
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