Exciting planetary action takes place this month. Venus and Uranus vie for attention and lie close to each other in late April. Jupiter offers a lot to observe through a telescope, particularly events ...
As the familiar wintertime constellations begin setting earlier each evening, it’s our last chance to catch some of the deep-sky treasures they contain. The constellation Monoceros lies east of better ...
NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans on April 9, 2015. As sea levels in these oceans rise due to climate change, Earth’s rotation ...
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, March 11, at 6:37 a.m. EDT, marking the final chapter for a spacecraft that reshaped scientists’ understanding of the radiation ...
The vernal equinox occurs at 10:46 A.M. EDT, bringing astronomical spring to the Northern Hemisphere as the Sun stands directly over Earth’s equator. On this day, the Sun also sits at the celestial ...
Born March 24, 1893, in Germany, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade earned his Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1919. He went on to a career at the Hamburg Observatory, then, in the late 1920s, ...
As close as we astronomers love to feel to space, one thing stands between us and the outer reaches: Earth’s atmosphere. More than 60 miles (97 kilometers) of gases separate us from the cosmos, and it ...
In a study published today in Science, researchers say they have solved a climate enigma — the inexplicable surge in global temperature in 2023, rising faster than climate models predicted. By ...
Saturn reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT, visible all night and offering stunning views of its rings and moons. The ringed planet now rises around sunset and is highest around local midnight, when it ...
French inventor Louis Daguerre, pioneer of the early photography process of daguerreotypes, is believed to have captured the first photo of the Moon on Jan. 2, 1839. However, the quality and other ...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has not disappointed — and we have the pictures now to prove it. The comet, formally known as C/2023 A3, was first discovered in January 2023 by Purple Mountain Observatory in ...
Born March 21, 1866, in New York, Antonia Maury was born into a family with an astronomical legacy: Her grandfather, John William Draper, was the second person to photograph the Moon (and the first ...
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