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See it! Moon sweeps past Saturn
The young moon passed Saturn in the early evening sky this weekend. The EarthSky community caught some beautiful views. Photos here.
November 12, 2018
Awesome new Jupiter close-up
This new Juno spacecraft image shows magnificent swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic atmosphere. The craft was about 4,400 miles (7,000 km) from the planet's cloud tops on October 29, over about 40 degrees north.
November 11, 2018
Pleiades ascending
The radiant point for the ongoing Taurid meteor shower is near this little, misty, dipper-shaped cluster, called the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.
November 8, 2018
See it! Moon sweeps past Venus
The waning moon swept past the brightest planet - Venus - in the east before dawn Tuesday morning, November 6. EarthSky community members from around the world captured them.
November 6, 2018
Sunburst on a fall morning
Rasmi Syamalan said that where she is, in Ohio, it's been cool and sunny, with fall colors about to reach their peak.
November 5, 2018
Moon is waning, but Venus is waxing!
Venus is near the waning moon early this week. Yet if you followed Venus with a telescope in the coming weeks, you'd find it's a waxing, not a waning, crescent.
November 4, 2018
Scientists now processing images of asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft - launched from Earth in September 2016 - has begun acquiring images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu.
November 2, 2018
Patagonia moon
Thank you to Grafixartphoto for this image of the moon reflected in a glassy lake in Torres del Paine, a national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia on October 23, 2018.
November 1, 2018
Sun halo over Zimbabwe
Scientists call them 22-degree halos, because their radius is approximately 22 degrees from the sun. This one was seen over Africa, whose mythology about sun halos matches North American skylore.
October 30, 2018
This morning’s moon, over Hong Kong
Here's this morning's bright moon - together with the stars we in the Northern Hemisphere see as "winter" stars - over Yuen Long, Hong Kong.
October 29, 2018
