The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.
The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus.
A prominent winter constellation ... the brightest thing in the southeastern sky after sunset. About 5 degrees below and to the right of Jupiter is Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus, and ...
What’s that bright light in the west after sunset? If you’ve stepped outside shortly after sunset this month, you might have ...
It’s the reddish star Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus the Bull. Aldebaran marks an angry red eye of the bull’s snout that roughly resembles an arrow pointing to the ...
which is just below the brightest star in the heavens, Sirius. The bluish Pleiades and yellowish Hyades are two visible star clusters in the Taurus constellation during the early-evening hours ...
The young protostar T Tauri is about to be eclipsed by a huge disk of gas and dust that could prompt the star to fade or even disappear.
Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...
The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...