You may have seen, or contemplated, the three planets in today’s pre-dawn sky, with the Last Quarter Moon hanging above them. This is how they came to be so beautifully grouped for us.
Category: astronomy
Tomorrow morning
A welcome to you if you’ve just learned about this blog. Here’s a welcome from the sky.
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Close past
I say little more
Its Name Means Sky
A density of meetings
Tomorrow morning the Moon will finish its plunge past a bright star and three bright planets by gliding less than a degree from little Mercury.
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These curious tunnels –
Just as you end your all-night vigil
The dawn scene on the other side of the Sun will be rising into your weary view:
Magical Dinosaur
If you see a shooting star around now, it likely is one of the meteors called Draconids.
Our Galaxy, Toppled and Bleached
This tilted map of the summer Milky Way suddenly filled the screen in front of me. After a few moments it disappeared, and was replaced by a drawing of a rag doll.
