Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 6, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, April 5 After rounding the Sun in January, Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś) is now headed back out to the depths of the solar system. This may be your last chance to see it, too, especially as it’s fading fast following a possible disruption of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 30, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 29 The Moon passes 0.3° north of Leo’s alpha star, Regulus, at 4 P.M. EDT. By the time darkness falls, our satellite stands about 3.5° east of this bright star. Shining at magnitude 1.4, Regulus sits nearly on the ecliptic — the imaginary […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 15, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 15 The distant ice giant Uranus is located in Taurus right now, not far from the famous (and easy-to-find) Pleiades star cluster, cataloged as M45. Tonight, the planet also sits a short distance due south of a 6th-magnitude field star of roughly the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 1, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, February 1 Full Moon occurs at 5:09 P.M. EST, bringing the light of the February Snow Moon to our nighttime skies. This name may seem particularly apt, given the weather much of the U.S. has been experiencing as of late! The Snow Moon gains […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 18, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, January 18 New Moon occurs at 2:52 P.M. EST. The moonless sky this week is the perfect time to enjoy deep-sky observing; tonight our target is the open cluster NGC 7789. It is also called Caroline’s Rose for its discoverer, Caroline Herschel, who first […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 21 The winter solstice occurs today at 10:03 A.M. EST. This marks the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and astronomical summer in the Southern Hemisphere. (Note that meteorological winter began December 1st, so you may have already heard news outlets […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 15, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 14 The Geminid meteor shower peaks today with a waning Moon in the sky. Widely regarded as the best meteor shower of the year, the Geminids will produce more than 100 meteors per hour during its peak. Although you may not see quite […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 18, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 18 ■ Titan casts its shadow on Saturn tonight. Every 15 years, Saturn’s largest moon repeatedly crosses Saturn’s face from Earth’s viewpoint — and, more visibly, casts its very tiny black shadow onto Saturn’ face. A series of these events is now under way. They will […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. The waning crescent Moon in the dawn passes Venus, then Jupiter. Look before or during early dawn, while the sky is still pretty dark, to spot the horntips of Taurus a well as the rest of Taurus off the frame to the upper right. MONDAY, JULY […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 14, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY JULY 13 ■ Scorpius is sometimes called “the Orion of Summer” for its brightness, its 1st-magnitude red supergiant star, and its many blue-white giants. But Scorpius passes a lot lower across the southern sky than Orion does. So for those of us at mid-northern latitudes […]
