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The Night Sky This Week July 17 2023
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Top 10 Observing Tips for the Closest Supernova in a Decade
A small telescope is all that’s needed to hunt down this exploding star in our neighbouring galaxy. Supernovae are spectacular astronomical events that mark the explosive deaths of massive stars. Here is a short rundown on what all the excitement is about with this rare sky event and provide tips on how you can attempt […]
Lunar Lasers and a Death Star
Check out my May appearance on The Stuph File radio show with host Peter Anthony Holder. where we talk about the high-definition footage we’ll have from the lunar surface when NASA gets back to the Moon; how Europe wants its own satellite system to compete with SpaceX; a Death Star devouring a planet and more.
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 […]
Top 10 Observing Tips for the Closest Supernova in a Decade
A small telescope is all that’s needed to hunt down this exploding star in our neighbouring galaxy. Supernovae are spectacular astronomical events that mark the explosive deaths of massive stars. Here is a short rundown on what all the excitement is about with this rare sky event and provide tips on how you can attempt […]
Lunar Lasers and a Death Star
Check out my May appearance on The Stuph File radio show with host Peter Anthony Holder. where we talk about the high-definition footage we’ll have from the lunar surface when NASA gets back to the Moon; how Europe wants its own satellite system to compete with SpaceX; a Death Star devouring a planet and more.
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 […]
