The planet Venus joins the Pleiades star cluster for a beautiful pairing we all can see in the evening skies in early April 2012.
Cecile LeBlanc is a veteran night sky tour guide, who came to EarthSky from Lowell Observatory’s Star Tales. At Lowell, she conducted tours and guided telescope viewing. She writes on a variety of topics but especially likes to write about the wonder of the skies and the natural world. She is appreciating the four seasons in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Posts by Cecile
“It sounds crazy but it could be snowing microbes on the surface of this little world,” a space scientist said of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Feb 22, 2012
Human World
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You might assume that air quality and health impacts are lower for electric vehicles than for conventional vehicles. Not necessarily so, this study reveals.
Sep 01, 2011
Space
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Astronomers have found the coolest star – temperature-wise. This star is cooler than the human body.
Jul 28, 2011
Earth
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Years ago, when experts were first considering using beetles to kill tamarisk, I had doubts about introducing a non-native insect to control a non-native plant.
May 19, 2011
Space
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Astronomers have discovered 10 free-floating, Jupiter-sized planets in our galaxy and say these objects might be more common than stars.
May 09, 2011
Space
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Famed planet-hunter Geoff Marcy spoke on May 2, 2011 about the Kepler space telescope and its 1,235 candidate planets. Does he think we’ll find intelligent life?
May 03, 2011
Astronomy Essentials
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As Mercury reemerges as a morning object in May 2011, the solar system’s innermost planet will join up with the planets Jupiter, Venus and Mars in the eastern sky at dawn.
Apr 07, 2011
Space
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The first convincing evidence of liquid water on a comet comes from analysis of a sample of Comet Wild-2, returned to Earth by NASA’s Stardust space mission.
Apr 01, 2011
Space
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The asteroid Vesta will soon get a visitor. The Dawn spacecraft will enter Vesta orbit in July, 2011. In the meantime, scientists and media are turning their gaze toward this little world.
