EarthSky Tonight—Nov 27, Orion the Hunter rises in the east at mid-evening
Orion the Mighty Hunter – perhaps the easiest to identify of all constellations – rises at mid-evening in late November and early December.
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Orion the Mighty Hunter – perhaps the easiest to identify of all constellations – rises at mid-evening in late November and early December.
The stars are like wildflowers, in that each star radiates with a different color of the rainbow. Have you ever noticed star colors?
Though Fomalhaut ranks as a first-magnitude star, it comes nowhere close to matching Jupiter in brilliance.
The planet Venus – the most brilliant celestial object after the sun and moon – is getting brighter day by day in the November predawn sky.
At nightfall and early evening, the bowl-shaped constellation Corona Borealis – the Northern Crown – shines to the lower right of the star Vega, close to your western horizon.
No matter where you live worldwide, tonight you will see a moon that is as far north as the June solstice sun.
Today’s Blue Moon definition comes from old editions of the Maine Farmer’s Almanac. Here are the facts.
In the U.S., the moon will reach the crest of its full phase during the daylight hours on Sunday.
The equinox falls at 9:09 p.m. on this Wednesday evening, according to clocks set to Mountain Daylight Time. That translates to 3:09 a.m. tomorrow – on Thursday, September 23 –…
Today Earth passes between the sun and Jupiter, placing Jupiter opposite the sun in our sky. Astronomers call this event an opposition of Jupiter.