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The Sky This Week from December 17 to 31

The Sky This Week from December 17 to 31

December 18, 2021 CX3 223 Comments antares, christmas tree cluster, cold moon, comet leonard, December, full moon, izar, jupiter, last quarter moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, sky, Venus, Week, winter solstice

[ad_1] Sunday, December 26 Mars passes 5° due north of Antares at 1 P.M. EST. Although daylight will hide them

Webb encapsulated inside Ariane 5

Webb launch confirmed for 24 December

December 18, 2021 CX3 344 Comments confirmed, December, Launch, Webb

[ad_1] Science & Exploration 18/12/2021 160 views 13 likes The James Webb Space Telescope is confirmed for the target launch

December full moon 2021: 'Full Cold Moon' meets string of 3 planets Saturday

December full moon 2021: ‘Full Cold Moon’ meets string of 3 planets Saturday

December 16, 2021 CX3 332 Comments cold, December, full, meets, Moon, planets, Saturday, string

[ad_1] December’s full moon on Saturday (Dec. 18), the last of the year, will usher in the winter constellations and

Webb fuelled for launch

Week in images: 6 – 10 December 2021

December 10, 2021 CX3 601 Comments Alaska, Asia, astronaut, China, comet leonard, Crew-3, December, Earth from Space, ESA, European Space Agency, Galileo, Galileo Satellite, HST, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Images, International Space Station, ISS, Matthias Maurer, Milky Way, Mount Everest, Nepal, United States, US, USA, Week, Week in images

[ad_1] Week in images: 6 – 10 December 2021 Discover our week through the lens [ad_2] Original Post

The Sky This Week from December 10 to 17

The Sky This Week from December 10 to 17

December 10, 2021 CX3 680 Comments boussingault, comet leonard, December, first quarter moon, geminids, Mars, meteor shower, neptune, nysa, pallas, sky, Uranus, Week

[ad_1] Tuesday, December 14 Let’s head back to Gemini again today, as the annual Geminid meteor shower peaks this morning

Sky This Month: December 2021

Sky This Month: December 2021

December 5, 2021 CX3 679 Comments Amateur astronomy, amature astronomy, andromeda, Antimatter, aperture, apogee, apparition, archaeoastronomy, asterism, asteroid, astonomy, astromony, astronamy, astronmy, astronomer, astronomi, astronomical, astronomie, astronomy charts, astronomy mag, astronomy magazine, astrophotography, Astrophysics, atmosphere, big bang, binoculars, black hole, blueshift, bolide, Cassegrain, Cassini, celestial, circumpolar, cmb, collimation, comet, conjunction, constellation, corona, cosmic microwave background, cosmic ray, dark adaptation, dark adaption, dark sky, December, deep sky, drift method, Earth, earth-like, earthlike, earthshine, eclipse, Enceladus, ESA, exoplanet, extrasolar, eyepiece, f-ratio, field of view, finder scope, galaxies, galaxy, gamma ray, go-to, goto, gravity, heliocentric, interactive star chart, jupiter, Kuiper belt, kuyper belt, light pollution, light speed, light year, lunar eclipse, magnitude, Mars, Mercury, messier, Meteor, Month, Moon, NASA, nebula, nebulae, nebulosity, neptune, news, Nova, novae, oort, p Cygni, physics, Planet, planetarium, pluto, protoplanet, quasar, quasi-stellar object, radial, red giant, red-shift, redshift, sapce, Saturn, scope, shooting star, shuttle, sky, sky glow, sky guide, sky watcher, skyglow, skyguide, SkyWatcher, Solar, solar system, Space, space craft, spacecraft, spcae, star, star atlas, star chart, star coordinates, star gaze, star gazer, star gazing, starchart, stargaze, stargazer, stargazing, starlike, Sun, sun-like, sunlike, Telescope, titan, transit, Uranus, Venus, wormhole, zodiac

[ad_1] Jupiter starts December in the eastern part of Capricornus, about 16.5° east of Saturn. It shines at magnitude –2.3,

Galileo launch to orbit

Watch Galileo launch on night of 4-5 December

December 4, 2021 CX3 403 Comments December, Galileo, Launch, night, Watch

[ad_1] Applications 04/12/2021 6680 views 52 likes The launch of Europe’s latest Galileo satellites is now scheduled for the night

The Sky This Week from December 3 to 10

The Sky This Week from December 3 to 10

December 3, 2021 CX3 58 Comments Antarctica, aquarius, c/2021 A1 leonard, capricornus, comet leonard, December, jupiter, neptune, orion nebula, Saturn, sky, taurus, the moon, total solar eclipse, Venus, Week

[ad_1] Sunday, December 5 It’s Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)’s time to shine! Rising by 2 A.M. local time, your best

Matthias Maurer in the Cupola

Week in images: 29 November – 3 December 2021

December 3, 2021 CX3 694 Comments Africa, astronaut, Crew-3, December, Earth from Space, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, Galileo, Galileo Satellite, HST, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Images, International Space Station, ISS, Mars, Matthias Maurer, November, Sudan, TGO, Week, Week in images, White Nile

[ad_1] Week in images: 29 November – 3 December 2021 Discover our week through the lens [ad_2] Original Post

Night sky, December 2021: What you can see this month [maps]

Night sky, December 2021: What you can see this month [maps]

December 1, 2021 CX3 1,280 Comments December, maps, Month, night, sky

[ad_1] A clear night sky offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects to see — stars, constellations, and bright planets,

The Sky This Week from November 26 to December 3

The Sky This Week from November 26 to December 3

November 26, 2021 CX3 514 Comments AAVSO, algol, algol paradox, beehive cluster, ceres, churyumov-gerasimenko, comet 67p, December, hyades, jupiter, last quarter moon, Moon, November, Saturn, sky, variable star, Venus, Week

[ad_1] Monday, November 29 The early-morning hours between midnight and sunrise are the best time to observe Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as