Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) ...

During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on May 27.

With a good telescope or camera, they will show up as small bright blue planets. Neptune can be found low in the western sky ...

Comet 13P/Olbers is still making its way through the large Coma Star Cluster (Melotte 111) in Coma Berenices this evening. Visible for a few good hours after sunset, look for the comet just 2.1 ...

In fact, if the air is very clear and the sky a clean, deep blue, you might try looking for Venus shortly before sunset. As the sky darkens, it will seem to swell from a tiny white spark to a big ...

A bright comet has made a rare appearance in the sky, and skywatchers will have several opportunities to see it before it retreats into the icy depths of space. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as ...

Friday, November 22 Last Quarter Moon occurs at 8:28 P.M. EST, leaving most of the evening dark for deep-sky observing. About two hours after sunset, you’ll find the Great Square of Pegasus high ...

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