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Observing Challenge: The Moon Brushes Past Venus and Covers Mercury This Week
The summer astronomical action heats up this week, as the waning crescent Moon joins the inner planets at dawn. This…
How to Find Your Way Around the Milky Way This Summer
Look east on a dark June night and you'll get a face full of stars. Billions of them. With the moon now…
Asteroid-Turned-Comet 2013 UQ4 Catalina Brightens: How to See it This Summer
Though ISON may have fizzled in early 2014, we’ve certainly had a bevy of binocular comets to track this year.…
How to Photograph the Night Sky, Even in Light-Polluted Skies: A Tutorial from Justin Ng
We feature A LOT of astrophotos here on Universe Today, and we get many comments about them, too -- with…
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Discovered: Two New Planets for Kapteyn’s Star
The exoplanet discoveries have been coming fast and furious this week, as astronomers announced a new set of curious worlds…
Catch the Dramatic June 10th Occultation of Saturn by the Moon
Some terms in astronomy definitely have a PR problem, and are perhaps due for an overhaul. One such awkward term…
Video: Beyond Neptune, It Sure Is Crowded With Icy Objects
Faster than you can say "trans-Neptunian object" three times, the reaches beyond Neptune's orbit start to fill out in this…
Observing Alert – Space Station ‘Marathon’ Starts This Week
What's your favorite satellite? For me it's the space station. Not only is it the brightest spacecraft in the sky, but…
Seeing in Triplicate: Catching a Rare Triple Shadow Transit of Jupiter’s Moons
The planet Jupiter is always fascinating to watch. Not only do surface features pop in and out of existence on its…
Camelopardalid Meteor Shower Skimpy but Sweet
So how were the 'Cams' by you? Based on a few reports via e-mail and my own vigil of two…