Look east on the night of Sept. 12 to see the waning gibbous moon close to the magnificent Pleiades open cluster, with the distant planet Uranus lurking nearby in the constellation Taurus. The 62%-lit moon climbs above the eastern horizon a little over an hour before midnight for viewers in the U.S., with the Pleiades sitting less than 5 degrees …
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‘444 light years away’: Voyager 1 could pass Pleiades, the Seven Sisters of Taurus in 100 millions years WION Source link
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The moon will sweep close to the Pleiades open star cluster in the early morning hours of Aug. 16-17, with the ice giant Uranus lurking unseen nearby. Look to the eastern horizon an hour after midnight on Aug. 16 to see the half-lit lunar disk — which hits its third quarter phase at 1:12 a.m. EDT (0512 GMT) — roughly …
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People who like to gawp at celestial events (as we all should) are in for a real treat at the moment. As well as the best meteor shower of the year – courtesy of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle – there is the upcoming lunar eclipse, visible to around 60 percent of the world’s population. But the Moon offers up some tasty treats …
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