The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...
The brightest planets in the night sky will shine as the 'planet parade' continues throughout February, plus be on the lookout for the Moon to join the line-up, and for Saturn to 'tag' Mercury in ...
CLICK TO ENLARGE: Brilliant Venus and Saturn — to the upper left — in the triangular shape of the zodiacal light. (WTOP/Greg Redfern) Feb. 17: The waning gibbous moon is very close to the ...
Venus is moving between Earth and the sun and will show a crescent phase like a miniature moon ... Feb. 17 (a.m.) — Waning gibbous moon in close conjunction with Spica, Virgo’s brightest ...
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...
What is the moon phase today? Today ... we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow crosses the moon's face. Waning gibbous: More than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight ...
The remaining phases – "waxing crescent," "waxing gibbous," "waning gibbous," and "waxing gibbous" – mark the timeframes between the primary phases (don't worry, we'll define these terms soon). Each ...