Tag: Chinese Zodiac

Moonless Evenings Launch Lunar New Year while Jupiter and Venus Bookend the Night!

The beautiful Rosette Nebula in Monoceros consists of a circular patch of glowing hydrogen gas and an internal star cluster, created as the hydrogen gas collapsed. Stan Noble tool this image, which was featured as the SkyNews picture of the week for November 3, 2017, in Aneroid, Saskatchewan. The image spans about two finger widths…
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Venus Kisses Saturn on Lunisolar New Year, Coming Comet E3, the Evening Moon Encounters Planets and then Shows Eastern Seas!

This amazing image of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) shows the narrow blue ion tail and the broad dusty debris tail. Celestial north is up. It was imaged by Michael Jäger of Austria on January 20, 2023 at 1:40 UT. He posted it on Twitter, where you can find a fantastic animated version. Follow him at…
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