Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 26, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, July 26 Asteroid 3 Juno reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EDT. Already above the horizon at sunset and visible all night, Juno glows at 9th magnitude in the constellation Aquila the Eagle. The Moon is nearby, now contained within the lid of Sagittarius’ Teapot. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 19, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, July 19 Right as the Moon is setting this evening, the planetary nebula NGC 6563 in Sagittarius is reaching the highest point in its path across the sky. This oval-shaped bubble of gas, generated as well as lit up by a dying Sun-like star […]
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, July 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While China has been considering the problems of asteroid defense since at least about 2020, there may now be real plans for the construction of a Chinese planetary defense capability — with inherit dual-use dangers. On June 30, Chinese state television CCTV featured an official […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 28, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 21, 2026 Sunday, June 28 The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its orbit, at 3:11 A.M. EDT. At that time, our satellite will be 252,441 miles (406,264 kilometers) away. The planet Mercury stands stationary tonight at 10 […]
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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 28, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While President Donald Trump wants to have Americans return to the Moon by 2028, there is a great deal of preparation necessary to meet that goal, and on May 26, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held a press conference to explain schedules and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 24, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, May 24 Moving through vast Virgo, 11th-magnitude asteroid 13 Egeria is passing near some stationary background stars tonight, offering an excellent chance to chart its motion over the course of a few hours. By May 25, Mercury is readily visible in the evening sky […]
