Ian Wheelband of Ashburn, Ontario captured this pre-Great Conjunction image of Jupiter and Saturn through his telescope on Friday evening, December 18, 2020. The planets will be far closer together on Monday, December 21, 2020. Happy Solstice, Winter Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of December 20th, 2020 by Chris Vaughan. Feel…
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A composite image by Yin Hao of 37 frames spanning 8.5 hours of time on Dec 12/13 of the 2017 Geminids Meteor Shower. The meteors, streaks of ionized gas in Earth’s upper atmosphere, appear to be radiating from the twin stars Castor and Pollux at upper left – while Orion at lower right looks on.…
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The glowing red hydrogen in the Heart and Soul Nebulas, and the bright stars of the Double Cluster above them, are featured in this image by Adrien Klamerius, which spans about 10 degrees (or a fist’s diameter) of the sky. NASA APOD for September 24, 2016 Hello, December Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for…
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