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9 night sky events to see in December, from a supermoon to a once-in-a-lifetime interstellar comet
This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing Saturn-moon pairing.
New Moon occurs this morning at 8:47 A.M. EDT. The planet Mercury is now becoming visible, low in the evening sky. If you have a clear view southwest, you may catch the planet some 30 minutes after sunset, hanging just 2° above the horizon. Although ...
Miss this one, and there's no second chance. Comet C/2023 A3 Tschinshan-ATLAS will be at its closest point to Earth, 44 million miles, on Saturday, and should be visible to the naked eye in the western sky just after sunset. The comet will be visible ...
Stargazers may have an opportunity to catch a glimpse of two newly discovered comets zipping across the night sky in October, possibly with the naked eye. Astronomy experts say one of the comets, known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), was spotted for the ...
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2 'new stars' have exploded into the night sky in recent weeks — and both are visible to the naked eye
A second "new star" has unexpectedly appeared in the night sky, less than two weeks after a near-identical point of light first burst into view without warning. These never-before-seen "stars" are made of light coming from rare stellar explosions known as ...
Seeing some of these planets at all will be problematic. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of things that I have enjoyed in my more than 22 years of writing the Night Sky column for ...
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