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Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...
When millions of people turn off their lights for Earth Hour each year, something remarkable happens in the night sky above ...
Night sky, June 2025: What you can see tonight ... Even when well-placed, it is a low-contrast object, and requires a high-quality optical system and stable observing conditions.
Diagram showing the planets in the solar system. iStock. By Monday October 15, the Moon will have moved higher in the sky to sit near Saturn, and a few days later, on October 18, the Moon will ...
Of course, there’s a high chance that even if the night sky has got darker during the pandemic, the status quo will likely resume once it’s all over. How to see the Milky Way from a town or city.
The Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebrides has been designated as Scotland’s first International Dark Sky Sanctuary for the quality of its night skies. The designation by Dark Sky International ...
On Thursday night, as Mr. Bohley, the ranger, prepared for the evening astronomy talk, a man from Philadelphia stopped by to say that he had timed his vacation especially to be in a dark-sky park ...
Visit a Dark Sky Park. DarkSky International has designated more than 200 locations around the world as Dark Sky places — a mix of natural spaces with high-quality dark skies and towns and cities that ...