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With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...
August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10 but will be best viewed later in the month. Here’s everything ...
Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our solar system, are about to make their closest approach during their August conjunction.
First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...
Saturday, Aug. 9. August’s moon is best known as the Sturgeon Moon, but Indigenous peoples also call it the Black Cherry Moon ...
This month, the full moon peaked just before 4 a.m. ET on Saturday morning, Aug. 9. But Americans have been treated to a ...
The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, which at that time of ...
Moving through western Aquarius, 89 Julia is visible all night and points the way to two bright Messier objects nearby.