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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. Amateur astronomers call it the Owl Nebula because it has two dark circles superimposed on a bright round background. Overall, it looks like the face of an owl. Also known asContinue reading "This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: The Owl Nebula"
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The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back toContinue reading "2025 Full Moon calendar: When to see the Full Moon and phases"
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Just a few decades ago, when we glanced skyward, we didn’t know for certain whether any star visible to the naked eye hosts planets like our own. Now, NASA scientists estimate that, on average, there may be at least one planet for every star in the Milky Way. That’s billions of extrasolar planets in ourContinue reading "These five famous stars in the sky host exoplanets — observe them tonight"
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Chris Cook from Harwich, Massachusetts The salt flats of Badwater Basin — the lowest point in North America — are lit by a First Quarter Moon in in this star trail shot representing 6 hours of exposure.
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Full Moon occurs at 12:56 P.M. EDT this afternoon. May’s Full Moon is also called the Flower Moon and because our satellite is still near apogee, it will appear some 29’ across, slightly smaller than the Full Moon’s average size (about 31’) in the sky. The Full Moon rises roughly opposite the Sun, so LunaContinue reading "The Sky Today on Monday, May 12: May’s Full Moon, Mars, and the Beehive Cluster"
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The gas giant Jupiter still dominates the constellation Taurus as it sets in the west after sunset. Jupiter now stands just to the right of Alheka (Zeta Tauri), one of the tips of the Bull’s two horns. The magnitude –1.9 planet remains the brightest point of light in the constellation, making it easy to centerContinue reading "The Sky Today on Sunday, May 11: Callisto grazes Jupiter"
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The Moon passes 0.4° south of Spica at 4 A.M. EDT. The best time for observing this pairing is in the few hours between midnight and 3 A.M. local daylight time, when they are still comfortably high above the horizon. At that time, turn west to see the nearly Full Moon (now 95 percent lit)Continue reading "The Sky Today on Saturday, May 10: The Moon meets Spica"
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Venera 13, launched by the Soviets in 1981, captured this image of the surface of Venus. Dr. Ksanfomality/Astronomicheskii Vestnik Editor’s note: This story was originally published Aug. 26, 2020. It was updated May 9, 2025, with details of the failed mission Kosmos-482. The Pioneer and Voyager probes the United States sent to explore the outerContinue reading "The Venera program: Interplanetary probes from behind the Iron Curtain"
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In 1958 the great extragalactic astronomer George Abell of UCLA compiled a catalog of galaxy clusters. It was extended by Abell and collaborators in 1987 and eventually contained 4,076 clusters. Abell 2256 is a rich cluster lying in Ursa Minor. It contains more than 500 members and lies about 800 million light-years away. The clusterContinue reading "Deep-Sky Dreams: Abell 2256"
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Congratulations to all Catholics. Yesterday, your College of Cardinals elected a new pope. In honor of him taking the name Leo XIV, I thought this would be a good time to tell you some facts about the constellation Leo the Lion. Actually, to commemorate the new pope, 14 facts. I) Leo is a springtime constellation in the Northern Hemisphere.Continue reading "Michael’s Miscellany: Leo the Great"
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Sky & Telescope's Govert Schilling visits what will be the world's most powerful optical telescope — the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile.
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Every month, the Moon takes four days to cross the sky from Spica to Antares. This week it goes unusually close to each of them.
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The sub-Neptune TOI-421b is made of much the same stuff as its star — matching predictions, but bucking the trend among other similarly sized planets.
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I came for the stars, but I’ll be returning for the people
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Rayed craters pepper the Moon especially around full. Cassini's Bright Spot is one of the most striking.
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Small relatives of the much-larger Kalliope, a metallic main-belt asteroid shed light on their mutual origin early in solar system history.
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An almost forgotten observation made 20 years ago provides evidence that magnetars create some of the heaviest nuclei in the universe.
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Deep cuts proposed for NASA, the National Science Foundation, and other science-funding institutions are causing grave concerns in the community.
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In the evening sky, the Moon meets Mars meeting the Beehive. Low the dawn, Venus and Saturn contrast enormously in a telescope.
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This month we’ll look for tiny bits of Halley’s Comet; track down four planets; take stock of bright stars in the late-spring sky; and use the constellation Leo to learn what astronomers call all the stars that don’t have names. So grab your curiosity, and come along on this month’s Sky Tour episode.
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