Tag: Sky this Week

Friday, January 24The Moon passes 0.3° south of the bright red giant star Antares at 7 P.M. EST. However, the ...

Venus and Saturn meet above the Moon in the upper left of this image, taken in January 2016. This week, ...

Mars reached opposition on October 13, 2020, when this photographer imaged it from Houston, Texas. This year, Mars reaches opposition ...

The Sun sets over the Pacific Ocean in this stunning shot taken from the International Space Station. Earth reaches perihelion, ...

An all-sky camera at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunstville, Alabama, caught this meteor streaking overhead in January 2012. ...

Friday, December 20Now that the evening sky is Moon-free, it’s time to aim for fainter targets, including 12th-magnitude Comet 333P/LINEAR. ...

Friday, December 13The bright gibbous Moon passes 4° north of Uranus at 5 A.M. EST. At that time, the Moon ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunningly sharp view of Jupiter when the planet was near opposition in 2019. Credit: ...

Friday, November 29Pegasus the Winged Horse might be the most well-known horse-themed star pattern in the sky, but he is ...

Friday, November 22Last Quarter Moon occurs at 8:28 P.M. EST, leaving most of the evening dark for deep-sky observing.  About ...