I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).
The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...
From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...
The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets this evening (Feb. 9), the moon ...
The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...
Another treat is in store for stargazers tonight (February 9) as the Moon and Mars ... Gemini's bright stars Castor and Pollux, set to shine to their left. According to BBC Sky at Night Magazine ...
Around 3 A.M. this morning, the pair is high in the southern sky. By an hour before sunrise, the Moon appears to hang just below the blue-white star as they hover about 30° high in the southwest.
Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...
Stargazers have been kept busy in 2025 already with planetary alignments lighting up the night sky. Now February heralds the arrival of a snow moon ... a bright star called Regulus – which ...