Joe Baldwin of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will speak on “Planetary Imaging: Equipment and Methods.” The program is free and open to the public.

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

A rare grand celestial reunion is happening through February, with the moon shining close to Uranus on Wednesday, February 5.

The Moon and Jupiter will meet in the southwest sky at around 9.00pm GMT, where Jupiter will be shining bright to the left of the Moon. At the same time tomorrow evening (February 6), the pair will ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Orion the Hunter and Taurus the Bull face off in the southern sky in early February as soon as it gets dark. Taurus is home to two of the brightest star clusters, the Pleiades and Hyades. Both are ...

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Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don’t appear as ‘bright planets’ [meaning you need a telescope or binoculars to see them ... you should be able to find Jupiter above the Orion ...

Planetary alignments like this are rare occurrences, happening only when the planets' orbits bring them into a shared line of sight from Earth. This makes January 25 a once-in-a-lifetime ...