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The moon is looking bright in the sky tonight, and that's for good reason. It's all down to where we are in the current lunar ...
What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
Mars appears low in our western sky for an hour or two after sunset.  Spotting it will be made easier if binoculars are used.
A woman who wore clothes resembling those of Holocaust concentration camp prisoners at a Palestine Action protest has been ...
Images of the protester circulated on social media, showing the woman dressed in striped clothes with the symbol of Islam sewn on to her shirt.
The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon. Waning crescent: Less than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight, and the amount is decreasing.
The moon's crescent will grow steadily larger in the runup to its first quarter phase on June 2, at which point half of its disk will be lit by direct sunlight from the perspective of Earth.
The waxing crescent moon will have moved slightly eastward in its orbit, growing to about 5%-lit and positioned slightly higher in the sky after sunset. Tonight, it will sit just above Jupiter in ...
Night sky for June Planets and the Moon: June opens with Jupiter, at magnitude -1.9, low in the western sky. Look for it 20 minutes after sunset at 8 degrees high. After that, Jupiter will be ...
A breakdown of how to get the most out of the different moon phases, from the new moon through waxing, full, and waning cycles.
The Moon is now situated between magnitude 1.1 Saturn and magnitude –4.5 Venus in the east an hour before dawn. If you were outside yesterday morning, you’ll note that the Moon is now a ...