As soon as darkness falls on May 25, 2012, look westward to see tonight’s moon lining up – or nearly lining up – with Castor and Pollux in Gemini.
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The moon still shines in the vicinity of Venus after sunset this Wednesday evening, May 23, 2012.
On May 22, 2012, for North America and most of the world, the moon swings closest to the planet Venus for this month.
Everything you need to know – whether you’re in Earth’s eastern or western hemisphere – about the May 20 or 21 annular eclipse of the sun.
There is an annular eclipse of the sun today for some lucky viewers – a partial eclipse for the rest of us. Who, what, when, where in this post.
On May evenings, the disk of our Milky Way galaxy coincides with the plane of the horizon. Because it is low in the sky in all directions, we can’t see it.
See a bright object near a faint one in the west after sunset? It’s the brightest planet Venus near the star Elnath.
Thuban was the Pole Star some 5,000 years ago, when the Egyptians were building the pyramids.
At nightfall, look directly overhead and star-hop to the constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs.
Venus will cross the sun’s face as seen from Earth for the last time in this century on June 5-6, 2012. This transit of Venus will be the last of our lifetimes.









