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Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...
It’s a busy month for Mars and the moon—not to mention the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. Here’s what to watch for, and when.
April's cosmic pileup follows on the heels of February's great planetary parade, which saw our solar system's five brightest planets - Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Mercury - line up in the ...
This star cluster is unique for being positioned along the elliptic, the invisible plane in which all the solar system’s planets line up as they orbit around the sun. Though Mars resembles a ...
May 5 - Jupiter has aligned with Mars - and Mercury, Venus, Earth and Saturn - but the cosmic lineup doesn't mean doom is lurking around the corner. Today, five planets have lined up with Earth and ...
Ever since Sunday, April 12, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn have been in a visible planetary alignment—aka when multiple planets line up together on one side of the sun at once. Now, from a purely ...
May’s planet-packed stargazing lineup makes that easy. While you can see many of May’s night-sky sights without instruments, a pair of stargazing binoculars is always nice to keep handy.
The Milky Way in the night sky during the Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which is peaking in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, on May 5, 2024.