Watch the Spectacular Geminids 2020
The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of December 13-14, 2020 which is Sunday evening to Monday morning. These colorful meteors tend to be bright, so on a dark night, you can easily spot 50 or more meteors per hour. The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to […]
What’s Up: August 2020 Skywatching Tips from NASA
See the Moon posing with various planets throughout the month, plus catch the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
What’s Up: July 2020 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory What are some skywatching highlights you can see in July 2020? Enjoy the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn with their moons, stay up late to spot Mars rising. Plus: what would you see stargazing on the Red Planet? Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What’s Up, along with […]
NASA Tracks Five Asteroids heading Towards Earth
NASA’s asteroid watch is tracking five asteroids that will supposedly safely pass us by. One of the five asteroids is reportedly the size of a large stadium. Get more science news from https://tnc.network
Huge Asteroid Due to Pass Earth on April 29
(52768) 1998 OR2 is the name of a huge asteroid that will pass closest to Earth on April 29, 2020.
Look Out for the 2020 Lyrid Meteor Shower
The April Lyrids are a meteor shower lasting from April 16 to April 26 each year. The radiant of the meteor shower is located in the constellation Lyra, near its brightest star, Vega.
Someday, Betelgeuse Might Explode.
Betelgeuse is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude, varying between +0.0 and +1.6, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star. At near-infrared wavelengths, Betelgeuse is the brightest star in the night sky. Its Bayer designation is α Orionis, Latinised to Alpha Orionis and abbreviated Alpha Ori or α Ori.
Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone,
A Huge Asteroid Will Safely Pass the Earth this Month
It is April 2020 and there is a huge asteroid headed this way. According to Astronomers, a very big space rock designated Asteroid 52768 1998 OR2, will pass us safely, at around 4 million miles.
The Pink Super Moon 2020
What is a pink moon? The pink supermoon name is a northern Native American reference to an early-blooming wildflower and is first seen across North America as spring begins. Tuesday night’s “pink moon” was the largest supermoon of the year. The full moon coincided with the lunar perigee — the moon’s closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit, which gives […]