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On June 26, Mercury reaches its highest elevation for Northern Hemisphere observers; at 9:15 it is still about 8 degrees high; that day the moon will be a thin crescent on the right ... so with a ...
You may have noticed the moon looked a little different last night — it was full, low, and in some places glowed with a bright-pink hue. It was June’s Strawberry Moon — so named not because ...
POCATELLO — The Idaho Museum of Natural History and Idaho State University campus have been selected for the out of this world opportunity to be home of one of the trees that orbited the moon ...
This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.
How You Can Navigate Your Way North Or South Using A Crescent Moon The trick is handy if you don't have a compass, nor know what the North Star/Southern Cross looks like.
A waning crescent Moon lies near bright Venus in the morning sky, offering a gorgeous pairing for visual observing or astrophotography.
Suddenly, the concern was that Nemirov wouldn’t have enough pieces for the exhibit. “I’ve been working on maps and trees since December,” she said, “and on moon pieces since 2024” (exhibited along ...
The Moon Tree is part of the Artemis Program, a nationwide initiative launched by NASA and the U.S. Forest Service.
Sprucewood Elementary School in Sandy planted a NASA Artemis I Moon Tree on Tuesday. The tree grew from a seed aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft in November 2022. The school was selected from 1,300 ...
Before sunrise on April 25, a slender waning crescent moon will appear left of Venus and Saturn to create the tilted happy face.
Saturn, Venus and the moon combine to form a grinning face in the predawn sky on April 25.