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Will you catch the moon and Saturn before sunrise February 2?
Jupiter and Venus will be very bright and up in the east before dawn. Saturn is below them - much fainter - near the moon on the morning of February 2.
February 1, 2019
Zodiacal light back in the west after sunset
It's back in the west after sunset, unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere. Then watch for it in the east before dawn!
February 1, 2019
Stargazing destinations: Oregon
Here's the 2nd video in the Chasing Darkness series, a stargazing destination guide. This episode: Skies over Oregon's Cascade Mountains and Alvord Desert.
January 31, 2019
Polar vortex 2019 photos and videos
Here's a glimpse of what the bone-chilling conditions in the U.S. Midwest this week look like.
January 31, 2019
Light pillar, a moon pillar, moon dogs
For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it's cold! Here's a predawn sky - from Alberta, Canada, earlier this week - at least partly created by cold.
January 31, 2019
How polar vortex blasts are tied to global warming
How could global warming be bringing the life-threatening cold to the central US this week? Scientists don't have all the answers, but, they say, the jet stream is the link.
January 30, 2019
Small telescopes detect missing link in planet evolution
We know objects far from our sun - in the Kuiper Belt - that are tens to hundreds of miles across. This object is only a few miles across. Astronomers caught it with the aid of 2 small telescopes and a distant star.
January 29, 2019
How Titan cooked its atmosphere
Saturn's largest moon Titan has a thick nitrogen atmosphere - unique among all the moons in the solar system. A new study suggests Titan's atmosphere originated from organics being "cooked" in its interior.
January 29, 2019
Moon slides past 3 morning planets
The brilliant planets Jupiter and Venus - and fainter Saturn, which is also closer to the sunrise horizon - will all be passed by the moon in late January and early February, 2019.
January 29, 2019
