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Topline The moon will this Saturday, Aug. 17, join a “planet parade” building in the morning sky. As it does so, it will brush past the Pleiades, a sparkling open cluster of stars that’s best known for dominating the winter night sky. Best seen about an hour before sunrise, bright planets Venus and Jupiter will continue to dominate in the …

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 …

GREAT FALLS — The annual Perseids meteor shower peaked Tuesday night, but stargazers had the chance to see another incredible display in the sky early Wednesday morning around 5:15-5:20 a.m. Bright streaks resembling a shooting star moved from west to east across the night sky, but this was not actually related to the meteor shower. It was space junk re-entering …

Apple’s new iPhone 17 Air is expected to come in four colors, including Sky Blue. And based on a new dummy model video, Sky Blue looks like it could easily prove the most popular color. Sky Blue coming to iPhone 17 Air after proving a hit on M4 MacBook Air Earlier this year, the M4 MacBook Air debuted in Sky …

National Weather Service staff at its Moon office got a few odd calls last night, about a strange-looking blue swirl moving across the sky. “We had a couple of calls on the overnight shift,” said NWS Meteorologist Andrew Kienzle. The swirl was created by a SpaceX rocket launch, experts said. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched on Tuesday from the …

While there is the expression “Once in a blue moon,” once in a while, there is a Black Moon too. Later in August, a rare Black Moon will be seen — or rather, hidden — in the night sky. A Black Moon is the moniker for a third new moon out of four in an astronomical season, instead of the …

WASHINGTON — Summer’s most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky — overlapping like a very bright star. If your focus is the meteor shower, it’s worth knowing that this year a bright moon will dampen viewing during the pre-dawn peak, so some experts recommend waiting a …

Topline A “planet parade” is building in the eastern sky before sunrise this week — and the highlight comes on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Best seen about an hour before sunrise, as the peak of the Perseid meteor shower draws to a close, bright planets Jupiter and Venus will appear less than one degree from each other in the eastern sky. …

August’s full moon, known as the ‘Sturgeon Moon’ made a splash when it leapt above the southern horizon on Aug. 9 earlier this week, illuminating the summer sky mere days before the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Celestron NexStar 8SE (Image credit: Amazon) Looking for a new telescope to view the moon? We reckon the Celestron NexStar 8SE is …

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separate images taken by Perseverance on May 26, 2025 that together create an 360-degree panorama of a location on Mars called “Falbreen.” This area contains some of the oldest terrain Perseverance has …