David Dickinson
Our Guide to This Month’s Total Solar Eclipse Over South America
2020 closes out with the final eclipse of the decade, as totality crosses the southern tip of South America on…
Catch Monday Morning’s Subtle Lunar Eclipse
A penumbral lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of November 30th marks the start of the last eclipse season…
A Record Close Shave: Asteroid 2020 VT4 Just Skimmed by Earth
Wow. A low-flying space rock set a record last Friday (appropriately, the 13th), when 2020 VT4 passed just under 400…
From a Tempest to a Trickle: Prospects for the 2020 Leonid Meteor Shower
Following the Leonid meteors in 2020.
Enter Comet S3 Erasmus: A Bright Comet For November
Comet C/2020 S3 Erasmus to end out the cometary cavalcade for 2020.
Tales of Two Fall Comets: 88P Howell and M3 ATLAS
Two more comets worth scouting the sky for into November 2020.
BepiColombo Mercury Mission to Make First Venus Flyby Tonight
The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft will observe Venus during tonight’s pass, on the hunt for phosphine and sulfur-dioxide.
Comet P1 NEOWISE Makes a Brief Late October Appearance
The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) caught another intriguing object on August 2, 2020 as part of its…
An Amazing Sky Mosaic Courtesy of Stellina…and a New Telescope from Vaonis
Check out this stunning new deep-sky panoramic and new light-weight ‘smartscope,’ courtesy of Vaonis.