Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. April evenings provide views of the two brightest planets, though only one stands out. Jupiter gleams at magnitude –2.1 and ...
The evening sky boasts two naked-eye planets. Start your night’s viewing with ruddy Mars, which lies in the west as darkness falls. It treks eastward against the backdrop of Virgo, passing 2° north of ...
May 2026 offers Southern Hemisphere skywatchers a rare mix of bright planets, two full moons, and the Eta Aquarid meteor shower linked to Halley’s Comet. Venus and Jupiter dominate the evening sky, ...
An illustration of a red giant star and a white dwarf orbiting each other in a recurrent nova explosion. NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center The Southern Hemisphere skies have two “new stars” visible ...
Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the sky's most striking color contrasts. The bright, nearly full moon will be ...
April evenings provide views of the two brightest planets, though only one stands out. Jupiter gleams at magnitude –2.1 and dominates the northern sky as twilight fades to darkness. It lies in Gemini ...