The moon passes by Venus.Mercury makes headway into the evening.Mars is closest to Pollux.Southern lunistice and lunar apogee.Not everywhere gets 12 hours of sunlight on the equinox. Some places don't…
The moon at apogee and heading south.Uranus goes retrograde.Mercury moves toward Venus.What's in a name? Maybe a few thousand years of human oral history. It doesn't seem so now, but Milky Way and…
The moon passes by Saturn.Venus is at aphelion.The moon reaches its farthest north.Venus passes by Spica, whose light left the star around the time of the American Revolution.
We get a deep partial lunar eclipse this week. Just a little deeper and it would be total.Mars continues making its way through Gemini.Jupiter rises just before the sun.Venus approaches Spica.
The constellation Cetus rises about midnight. The variable star Mira remains beyond naked eye visibility.Mars reaches the feet of Gemini.Mercury zooms into the sunrise away from Jupiter.
There's a total solar eclipse this week.Venus reaches greatest elongation.Mercury, Mars, and the moon delight in the morning.And watch for Perseid meteors.
Earth is eye-to-eye with Mars in a manner of speaking.The moon passes by Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus.Venus approaches Porrima.Venus and Mercury could both appear at semi-circle phase on the same day,…
Venus is the only naked eye planet in our evening sky. It's near the lion's tail. Or it's by what some ancient observers likened to a dog pen.Saturn and Mars shine in the morning. Mercury's joining…
Superior and inferior don't mean better than and worse than when we're talking about astronomical events. Find out what it means when one of the inner planets is at inferior conjunction like Mercury…
Jupiter and Saturn are close together in the evening sky and getting closer. In just a couple months, they'll be the closest they've been in nearly four centuries. You can see this great conjunction…
