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Kelly Kizer Whitt

Volans the Flying Fish in southern skies

Volans the Flying Fish is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere that appropriately lies next to Carina the Stern. Spot the Flying Fish on March nights.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 29, 2022

Conjunction time! See planets and moon March 28

See the morning planets - Venus, Mars and Saturn - in conjunction, plus the moon joins the view on March 27 and 28. If you get a great photo, send it to us!

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 27, 2022

Solar Orbiter passes historically close to sun on Saturday

Solar Orbiter will make a historically close pass of the sun on March 26, 2022. All 10 of its instruments will be operating to acquire close-up data.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 26, 2022

Whoa! Another asteroid whizzes past Earth hours after discovery

Krisztián Sárneczky, the same astronomer who discovered 2022 EB5, discovered another asteroid just hours before it flew so close to Earth that it dipped into our shadow.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 25, 2022

Mysterious Maunder Minimum: Nearby star offers clues

We may learn more about the sun's Maunder Minimum - a quiet period of low sunspots in the 1600s and 1700s - thanks to the help of a nearby sun-like star.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 24, 2022

Carina the Keel, home to an erupting star

Carina: You know its erupting star, now learn the constellation! Carina the Keel contains the sky's 2nd brightest star and some amazing nebulae.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 19, 2022

New image from Webb, another milestone achieved

NASA released a new image from Webb, the most powerful infrared space telescope, on March 16, 2022. The image shows a star with galaxies in the background.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 16, 2022

Asteroid discovered hours before Earth impact

An astronomer discovered asteroid 2022 EB5 just two hours before it impacted Earth over the Arctic Ocean on March 11, 2022. Fortunately, it was small and burned up upon entry.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 13, 2022

Supernova discovery by EarthSky Community member

Filipp Romanov discovered a supernova on February 9, 2022, and photographed it using the remote iTelescope T24. It's his first confirmed supernova discovery.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 12, 2022

Castor and Pollux meet the moon, March 10 to 12

The moon creeps up on the twins Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini from March 10 to 12. On March 10, the moon is in 1st-quarter phase.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

March 10, 2022

Kelly Kizer Whitt

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.