The top 10 stories of 2022 is a review of what we’ve learned in the past year from our home planet, Earth, out to the vast universe. See the top 10 here.
You can see all 5 bright planets in the evening sky now (December 2022). Mercury and Venus are nearest the sunset. By the year's end, the waxing moon will sweep past them.
The uncrewed Orion moonship has traveled around the moon and returned safely to Earth. The Artemis 1 splashdown was in the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2022.
Kelly Kizer Whitt - EarthSky’s nature and travel vlogger on YouTube - writes and edits some of the most fascinating stories at EarthSky.org. She's been writing about science, with a focus on astronomy, for decades. She began her career at Astronomy Magazine and made regular contributions to other outlets, including AstronomyToday and the Sierra Club. She has nine published books, including a children's picture book, Solar System Forecast, and a young adult dystopian novel, A Different Sky.
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