The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

The evening planets are much easier to see: Always bright and reliable ... Mercury rises nearly two hours before sunrise and appears to literally soar high into the eastern sky in the dawn twilight.

An hour after sunset, the bright planet Jupiter stands ... 7° south of Neptune at 3 P.M. EDT; the two planets are briefly visible in the early-morning sky, so let’s try to catch them in the ...

Hanson Center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas ... conjunction. The two planets will be about two or three fingertip widths apart in the sky, he said.

It is highly unusual, however, for three or more bright planets to appear in the same small area of the sky. From our Earthly vantage point, we can readily observe Mercury, Venus, Mars ...

From a partial solar eclipse, to bright planets, and the end of the meteor shower 'drought', there is plenty to see in the sky this spring. Despite the nights getting shorter again, the warmer ...