In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

And, in fact, the moon can range even farther to the north and south than the sun because its orbit is inclined 5.1 degrees to the ecliptic. In special years this tilt adds to the ecliptic's own ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about ...

In particularly rare events, all eight planets may line up in such a way that they appear in our night sky together, following the ecliptic – the sun's apparent path through the sky. Preston ...

The planets will appear to stargazers to be in a row along the ecliptic, which is the path followed by the Sun. With the thin waxing crescent moon creating very little light in the sky ...

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I almost concluded it was an actual NEO and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my final doubts" G told Astronomy. It was then that Jonathan McDowell ...

Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging. Think of how hard it is to estimate the distance of someone pointing a flashlight at you on a dark night. Galaxies come in a very wide range of ...

All seven planets are visible in the night sky simultaneously. All the planets in the solar system orbit the sun on roughly the same plane, the ecliptic, but they move at different speeds. Because of ...

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...