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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 17, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, May 17 The Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit, at 9:44 A.M. EDT. At that time, our satellite will be 222,498 miles (358,076 kilometers) away. Springtime viewing of the zodiacal light will soon come to an end — so […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 4, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, May 3 Venus officially passes 7° north of Aldebaran at 3 A.M. EDT this morning. But the bigger story occurs late tonight, as the Moon rises around 10:30 P.M. local daylight time in northwestern Scorpius and passes 0.5° south of Alpha (α) Scorpii, better […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 19, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, April 19 The Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit, at 2:56 A.M. EDT. At that time, our satellite will be 224,707 miles (361,631 kilometers) from Earth. The Moon passes 5° north of Venus at 5 A.M. EDT, then passes […]
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 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Travel southeast from Capella to capture Auriga’s targets. The chart zooms in on the Happy Face asterism. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Sunday, December 28 Let’s keep the holiday joy going with a smile among the stars — tonight we’re tracking down the so-called Happy Face […]
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 7, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 7 The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter in Gemini at 11 A.M. EST, after both have set. However, you can catch the pair in the evening sky; they rise a few hours after sunset, with Jupiter now leading the way above the […]
