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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  May 14: The Moon and Mars in the morning Jupiter remains prominent in eastern Gemini after sunset, glowing brightly to the lower left of the Twins’ two heads, Castor and Pollux. Overnight tonight, there’s a double shadow transit visible on the gasContinue reading “The Sky Today on Friday, May 15: A double shadow transit at Jupiter” The post The Sky Today on Continue ReadingThe Sky Today on Friday, May 15: A double shadow transit at Jupiter→

📷 Ash Sayedi The Milky Way’s winter arc is draped across St. Michael’s Church atop Brent Tor in Devon, England, in this scene captured April 6, 2026. The imager combined seven-panel panoramas for sky and foreground, using a 14mm lens on a modified mirrorless camera with tracked sky exposures of 90 seconds at f/2 andContinue reading “Winter is fading” The post Winter is fading appeared first on Astronomy Magazine. Continue ReadingWinter is fading→

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 15Are you familiar with the constellation Crater the Cup? If not, don’t worry — you’re about to spot it tonight.  This mid-sized constellation, measuring 53rd in size among the 88 official constellations, sits about 30° high in the south an hour afterContinue reading “The Sky This Week from May 15 to 22: The Moon greets Jupiter and Venus” The post The Sky Continue ReadingThe Sky This Week from May 15 to 22: The Moon greets Jupiter and Venus→

Following the roaring success of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, the space agency is devising plans for a final test flight before attempting to land the first humans on the Moon in decades, as soon as 2028. Whereas Artemis 2 sent four astronauts slingshotting around the Moon and back — and farther from Earth than any human hasContinue reading “NASA shares new details on Artemis 3 pre-lunar landing mission” The post NASA shares new details on Artemis 3 Continue ReadingNASA shares new details on Artemis 3 pre-lunar landing mission→