Keep your eye towards the sky starting on January 21st as six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus—will be visible in the night sky.
To kick off the beginning of the weekend, catch Venus and Saturn meeting as a conjunction on the night of Jan. 17. A telescope is not required to view this astronomy event.
Top notch amateur photographer Damian Peach took this Saturn picture three years ago, when the planet’s rings were angled halfway between their wide open orientation and this year’s perfectly edgewise ...
Occasionally, the planets will be on the same side of the Sun as they move along their orbits, so we get to see them in the sky at the same time. This is what will grace the sky on the evenings of ...