Tag: Planetary alignment

Moonless Midnights, Morning Planets in Line, and Boötes Beauties!

May 22, 2022

This image of spiral galaxy NGC 5248 (also known as Caldwell 45) in southwestern Boötes was captured by Adam Block’s team at Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona on March 3-4, 2011. The image spans 16 arc-minutes of sky, measuring left-to-right, or half the moon’s diameter. Hello, Spring Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for…
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Learning about Lunisolar New Years, the Evening Moon Earns Views and Meets Mars, and Plentiful Planets in Pre-dawn!

February 14, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Rover is scheduled to land in Jerzero Crater on Thursday, February 18 at about 3:55 pm EST, joining the Hope orbiter of the United Arab Emirates and the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission that arrived on February 9 and February 10, respectively. (Image from NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/) Hello, Valentine’s Day, Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights…
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