Watch the Moon Hide Jupiter This Week
This Wednesday morning look towards the east an hour before your local sunrise to catch a breaktakingly close encounter between our Moon and the largest planet in the solar system. The moon itself will be an eye-catching, thin crescent. If you happen to be situated in Canada, the contiguous US, Mexico, Greenland, northern Scandinavia, or […]
The Night Sky This Week May 15 2023
This week we highlight an eye-catching line-up that involves Mars and the moon has a super-close encounter with Jupiter and even hides the planet for some lucky observers.
Weird Asteroid Belts Spotted Around Young, Bright Star
Three glowing disks of dusty debris encircling a young star are reminiscent of our solar system’s asteroid belt. Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light. But […]
Webb Spots Baby Galaxy Cluster
The powerful telescope’s latest findings are the first to spectroscopically confirm distances for a young protocluster of galaxies just 650 million years after the big bang. Astronomers think the protocluster represents the earliest stages of what will develop into a massive conglomeration like the Coma Cluster, which includes thousands of gravitationally bound member galaxies. Every […]
The Stuph File Interview: Artemis II Crew Announcement
Check out my April special appearance on The Stuph File radio show with host Peter Anthony Holder.
The Night Sky This Week April 17 2023
Join National Geographic columnist and Night Sky Guy Andrew Fazekas for his picks for top skywatching picks of the week. In this episode we highlight the Moon meeting planets and stars, and the annual Lyrid meteor shower and explain what it is and how best to watch it from the city or the country-side.