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Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...
Stargazers in the U.S. can see Venus rising around 3 a.m. local time, with the Pleiades star cluster visible as a smudge of ...
Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...
Exact time to see the Moon meet Mars and Regulus Regulus is a bright blue star in the constellation Leo, which is often called the 'lion's heart'. It regularly appears close to planets in the ...
What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...
Looking for festive treats to celebrate Independence Day? These star-spangled desserts are just the thing to sweeten you ...
The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...
Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...
At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...
Gaze at the night sky enough, and you’ll begin to find all kinds of geometric patterns among the stars. Points are easy; so are lines connecting two ...