Visible planets and night sky guide for September 2024. Look for the bright waxing gibbous moon near Saturn in the east after sunset on September 15 and 16.
The zodiacal light is an eerie light extending up from the horizon before dawn around the Northern Hemisphere autumn. Southern Hemisphere? Look after sunset!
On today's date, August 25, 1989, Voyager 2 flew over the north pole of Neptune, making its closest approach to a planet in its outer solar system Grand Tour.
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