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The Moon doesn't rise until late tonight, leaving a dark window after sunset to explore the sky. Back in Leo in the west this ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is on its way to brighten up the night sky — and the best is yet to come. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is arriving at its projected pinnacle of brightness, followed by a ...

Initially, the comet will likely be visible even from cities and suburban locations, but by later in the month, the most impressive views will be from dark country locations where the sky is ...

The comet will look like a bright fireball in the dark sky with a long, extended tail. Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ...

City lights pollute the night sky. But there are still places to go for comets and stargazing. Dark sky parks and IDA-certified locations are the best places to view cosmic events. From Alaska to ...

(CNN) — When a new comet appears in the sky, there is often excitement. But things don’t always end well for the ancient celestial objects, made of ice, frozen gases and rock, as they near the ...

A 'new' star will light up the sky soon and you can see it for yourself Earth will get a 'mini-moon' this month, but it's only visiting And while a comet gracing our sky has the potential to put ...

At the moment, the comet isn't visible to the naked eye. It's currently at magnitude 8. Visually, the naked eye can only see magnitude 6 in dark-sky locations (in astronomy, brightness is on a ...

The waxing gibbous moon will be 97 percent-illuminated, making the night sky less than dark. This evening, the comet will due west, 30 degrees from the sun and will set about an hour and 20 ...

In the meantime, the bright comet can be spotted with a telescope or a pair of binoculars as it streaks across the sky. Astronomers discovered the comet in images captured by the SWAN instrument ...