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Look to the eastern sky late Thursday, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment.
A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent ...
If you choose to run the math yourself, you will find that although the Sun is about 400 times larger, the Moon is about 400 ...
The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.
The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...
The full moon will occult the star Spica only 28 minutes later for observers ... When the moon is exactly on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun, you have a full moon.
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).
The relatively rare celestial event occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth all line up Saturday's partial solar eclipse will be the first of the year, and the 17th of this century. PARIS: The ...
From the earthbound observer's point of view, the sun and the moon share the same celestial longitude, a projection of the Earth's longitude lines on the sky. Usually, the moon passes above or ...