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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

Lots of things are happening in the night sky during the coldest month ... Venus and Saturn dot the southwestern sky at dusk, while Jupiter and Mars join the bright winter stars in the east.

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the ...

February 1: The thin, four-day-old crescent moon will be just a few degrees from Venus, making a lovely pair. Look for them in the sky in the southwest after sunset. When you observe the moon, see if ...

That’s why it’s so bright — and so obviously red — and that ... so lowest in the sky — our star ever appears to be. What follows will be the longest night of the year, which, as ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

We spoke with Foothill College astronomy instructor Geoff Mathews about the biggest highlights on the astronomical calendar, ...

So, here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in January 2025… Start the month with a classic astro-landscape ...

Next month, on Jan. 15, Mars will be at opposition to the sun, when it will be in the sky all night; rising at sunset ... increasingly poorer views of the red planet as the Earth-Mars orbital ...