It’s a busy season for to be a skywatcher. Besides the recent full moon and this year’s Perseid meteor shower hitting its peak, two of the brightest planets in our solar system will be cozying up. A ...
Skywatchers who missed the dazzling meetup of Venus and Jupiter that began early on the morning of Saturday will get another chance to witness what is called the planetary conjunction early Sunday.
On Dec. 21, after drawing visibly closer and closer in the night sky over the past few months, Jupiter and Saturn will appear the closest they have since March 4, 1226, nearly 800 years ago. They were ...
As you become increasingly astro-sophisticated (and aren’t we all these days?), you’re going to hear a lot about planets, the sun, and the moon being “conjoined” in different combinations. Astrologer ...
A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...
TULSA, Okla. — Night sky gazers, this is your week! Green Country will be able to see two moon-planet conjunctions over the next several days. What is a moon-planet conjunction? In astronomy, ...
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We all learned about conjunctions in grade school, a memory likely filed away with other early school memories, such as how to do long division and reciting multiplication tables through the number 12 ...