I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...
Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...
(Photo by: Alan Dyer /VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Pleiades, also known as the “Seven Sisters” and M45, is a open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus about 440 ...
The bluish Pleiades and yellowish Hyades are two visible star clusters in the Taurus constellation during the early-evening hours this month. On Jan. 9, the moon will appear to the right of the ...
At 8 P.M. EST, the Moon passes 4° due north of Uranus, which itself sits 6.5° southwest of the Pleiades (M45 ... through the constellation. Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation from ...