The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ... born of the same primordial gas cloud. To the unaided eye, only six of the stars are usually apparent, including their parents Atlas ...
Mercury — passes superior conjunction with the sun on Feb. 9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees from the sun, Mercury can be seen at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...
From February 18 through February 28, when the moon will be out of the early evening sky, the elusive zodiacal light may become visible after sunset. The zodiacal light appears as a faint triangular ...
A more compact huddle occurred in the summer of 2022 across the pre-dawn sky. While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a ...
The pair is once again visible in the evening sky, hanging about 30° above the western horizon an hour after sunset. Only Venus is visible to the naked eye — it’s the brightest point of ...