Tag: eclipse viewers

Moon’s Move to Morning Sets a Solar Eclipse and Galaxy Season, Pons-Brooks Approaches Jupiter, and Planets Prance at Dawn

This simulated view of the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse from the vantage point of the sun shows the spherical moon’s round shadow cast upon the Earth at 18:16 Greenwich Mean Time (or 2:16 pm EDT). The motion of the moon will cause the shadow to complete its passage in several hours. We never see…
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A Spotty Sun, Comet E3 Enters Evening, Pre-dawn Lunar Libration, Mercury in Morning, Venus Smooches Saturn at Sunset, and a Taurus Tour!

This amazing composite image by Detlef Hartmann shows the continued expansion of the Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (aka Messier 1) in Taurus over 10 years (Sept 29, 2008 through Sept 22, 2017). It spans about 0.1 degrees of the sky. In the heart of the nebula sits a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits radio…
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