Let's examine this. The Earth has a dual movement: a flat trajectory around the Sun, called the ecliptic, and a rotation on its own around the south-north axis. This axis, whose direction can be ...

Planet watchers with a clear view to the west-southwest can find Venus and Mercury tonight through next week. Venus is much brighter and easier to see and located about five degrees (three fingers ...

We’re getting a great gift in our skies this holiday season with three bright planets — Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — decorating our evening skies. We also have some nice celestial conjunctions ...

Two by two. If you have been keeping track, this will be the second eclipse in less than a month. On March 13-14, we had a total eclipse of the moon.The moon crossed the ecliptic — the apparent ...

Note, however, that our Moon is not perfectly in line — that’s because Luna’s orbit is tilted some 5° with respect to the ecliptic. June opens with Jupiter and Mercury mingling in the ...