... look at three bright planets shuttling about the western sky at dusk. Jupiter, Venus and Mercury gather for nearly a week of delightful alignments including three separate conjunctions staring right now. Mercury and Venus pair up on Friday; Mercury and Jupiter
Posted by Universe Today
Sky-watchers this week get a chance to go eye to eye with a cosmic scorpion and witness a magnificent meeting of three neighboring worlds in the evening skies.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Saturn's rings are one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system. They are an amazing planetary phenomenon – countless bits of rock, ice and dust orbiting the planet in relatively paper-thin rings, which, when seen from above, kind … Continue reading →The post How Saturn shakes its rings appeared first on The Meridiani Journal.
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... comes into view, three planets huddle, and the moon joins the Leo constellation in this week's best sky events.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
... for making Earth-like planets could be quite Âcommon in stellar nurseries across the cosmos. “We have identified chemical evidence…
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Outer Space from Sander van den Berg on Vimeo.
Posted by wanderingspace
Straggler meteors, a solar eclipse, and the return of Venus are among the best sky events to watch this week.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Saturn's opposition this year was last April 28, 2013. I planned to take images of the planet on that day but didn't proceed due to poor weather. On the night of April 30, my boyfriend and I went to PAGASA Observatory to try our luck to observe and image the planet using Galileo (my C8 […]
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