On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...
M45, the Pleiades star cluster, in a series of exposures ... also known as the “Seven Sisters” and M45, is a open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus about 440 light-years distant ...
The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...
In the evening during early January, the prominent open star cluster known as the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is climbing the southeastern sky. The stars of its home constellation ...
A rundown of some of the exciting sky events — including meteor showers and the first total lunar eclipse for the U.S. since ...
It is what's known as an open star cluster, meaning it's a loosely-bound collection of stars that are roughly the same age. It's estimated that the stars of the Pleiades are between 75 and 150 ...
Soon after 10 p.m. the moon will have moved beyond the cluster. On January 9th at 7 p.m. EST, as seen from New York City, the waxing gibbous moon will be very close to the Pleiades star cluster.