Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 9, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, November 8 Rising with the stars of western Leo shortly before midnight, bright Jupiter and its Galilean moons put on a show early this morning, better visible the farther east you’re located. Jupiter is just under 5° northwest (to the upper right) of Regulus […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 4, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct China has publicly disclosed plans for a lunar landing within three years. Unveiled at the Seventh Manned Space Symposium at Beihang University in Beijing on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, the plan will use a “two launches, one lunar landing” strategy. Two Long March-10 carrier rockets will launch separately from […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 29, 2026 Spiritual Food* Isaiah 46 Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. 10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 30, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 ■ The waning gibbous Moon rises in the east in late twilight. Saturn follows it up about 30 minutes later. Another hour and they’re nicely high free and clear. Although they look close together (about 5°), Saturn is currently 3,400 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 23, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 ■ Late these evenings as autumn approaches, Fomalhaut, the Autumn Star, makes its inevitable appearance above the southeast horizon. Its rising time will depend on where you live. But by about 11 p.m. now, you should have no trouble identifying […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 2, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, August 2 Mercury reaches its greatest western elongation at 4 A.M. EDT, standing 19° from the Sun. The tiny planet reaches an altitude of almost 5° above the eastern horizon an hour before sunrise, glowing at magnitude 0.2. Over to the far right of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 5, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, JULY 5 ■ And while you’re doing globulars, here’s a rather different one. Explore the area around Antares using Matt’s column and chart in the June 2026 Sky & Telescope, page 43. In Antares’s binocular field is M4, bigger and closer to us but […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 21, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, JUNE 21 ■ Today is the longest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere, and the official start of summer. The summer solstice comes at 4:25 a.m. EDT, when the Sun ends its northward journey for the season and begins its […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 14, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JUNE 14 ■ Bright Arcturus, shining very high toward the south these evenings, and Spica, about three fists at arm’s length below it and a bit right, form an almost perfect equilateral triangle with dimmer Denebola, Leo’s 2nd-magnitude tail tip, off to their right. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 31, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, May 31 Full Moon occurs at 4:45 A.M. EDT, bringing us May’s second Full Moon and the first — and only — Blue Moon of 2026. Shortly after that, at 5 A.M. EDT, the Full Moon passes 0.4° south of Antares, as both are […]
