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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 23, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, November 23 Andromeda the Princess is high in the evening sky after dark. Best known for the eponymous Andromeda Galaxy (M31), there is so much more to see in this royal domain, including the lovely edge-on spiral we’re targeting tonight: the Silver Sliver Galaxy […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 2, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, November 2 Daylight saving time ends today at 2 A.M. The Moon passes 4° north of Saturn at 6 A.M. EST, then passes 3° north of Neptune at noon EST. This evening after sunset, you’ll find the waxing Moon located to the upper left […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 26, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, October 26 Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches inferior conjunction tonight, sitting 1.3′ due north of Saturn and glowing at roughly 11th magnitude. This oft-elusive moon is easier to find when it is close to its parent planet, so give it a try tonight. Magnitude 0.7 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 19, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, October 19 The Moon and Venus hang close together in the predawn sky, sharing the sky in the constellation Virgo. An hour before sunrise, look east to spot Venus, the brightest point of light, blazing at magnitude –3.9 nearly 7° above the horizon and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 11, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Saturday, October 11 Last week, Io and Europa took a trip together across Jupiter, transiting the planet with their shadows. The moons’ resonant orbits mean similar events often repeat, and this morning is your chance to catch another one. Bright Jupiter stands high above the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 6, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Friday, October 3 There’s a new potential supernova candidate in a spiral galaxy located in Ursa Major, visible overnight for U.S. observers. If you’ve got an imaging scope or an astrophotography setup on a larger optical instrument, you may want to give it a try. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ■ Fall begins today in the Northern Hemisphere at the moment of the equinox, 2:19 p.m. EDT (11:19 a.m. PDT). This is when the center of the Sun crosses Earth’s equator, and equivalently the celestial equator, in its six-month journey south from solstice […]
