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We're going live! Tune in with our team member, Kyle, as we share with you live views of the Geminid Meteor Shower peak on the night of December 13, 2021...
Mercury returns to the evening sky, with a thin crescent Moon to its right on the 28th and then above it the following night. Saturn reaches opposition on the 14th and is visible all night...
When it comes to star clusters, there’s no finer example in the entire night sky than the Pleiades. It’s visible throughout the winter months and can be easily found by following the three stars of Orion’s belt upwards to Aldebaran, the red eye of Ta...
Mercury and Mars remain in the evening twilight and can be seen low over the western horizon from about 15 minutes after sunset. However, while Mercury reaches greatest elongation on the 9th, it then disappears around the 20th...
There’s a rare opportunity to see every planet in the evening sky this month. Mercury appears low in the southwest from about 15 minutes after sunset, with Venus remaining to its lower right throughout the month...
Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune are too close to the Sun to be observable this month, but Mercury continues to climb into the evening twilight. Start searching low over the western horizon at about 15 minutes after sunset; the planet will be highest at greatest...
Uranus is in conjunction with the Sun on the 5th and therefore won’t be visible this month, leaving Mercury as the only planet to be seen in the evening sky...
As many folks know, spring is galaxy season, and we currently have the opportunity to see three shining examples close together. Known collectively as the Leo Triplet, you can glimpse M65 and M66 within the same binocular field of view as Theta Leonis...
All the planets are visible in the evening sky at the start of January. Mercury appears within the same binocular field of view as Venus on the 1st, with Mercury appearing to the lower right of Venus at about 30 minutes after sunset...
For centuries, civilizations studied the night sky with no aid whatsoever. All they had was the power of their human eyes, and that alone served them well enough to observe meteor showers, planetary movements, and rare cosmic events. Many of us equate...
When it comes to deep-sky objects that are easily seen from the northern hemisphere, it’s hard to think of anything that comes close to M42, the Orion Nebula. It’s visible to the naked eye, even from suburban skies, as a faint, misty patch just below the...
November’s partial eclipse can be seen by everyone on the North American continent, and with 97% of the lunar disc in shadow, it’s almost as close to total as you can get. The downside? No matter where you live in the U.S. or Canada, you’ll need to st...
As almost everyone knows, there are currently eight planets in the solar system. Not so long ago, there were nine planets, but Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. What happened? Why is Pluto no longer a planet? And what is a planet, anyway...