I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Read on to find out what's up in the night sky tonight (planets visible now, moon phases ... of the same primordial gas cloud. To the unaided eye, only six of the stars are usually apparent ...

“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...

On Saturday 1 February, some of our BBC Weather Watchers reported these sightings of the crescent Moon and Venus close together. With the clearest skies in the south-east of the UK on Saturday, ...

just as the moon appears to do. At the end of January, it will be about 40%-lit and just 23%-lit by mid-to-late February, while it's still easy to see in the post-sunset night sky. Shooting ...

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the last month, you'll know Venus dominates the post-sunset night sky. Tonight ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Castor and Pollux, the two stars for whom the constellation is named, will shine just to the left of the pair. Want to see the moon or Mars up close in the night sky? The Celestron NexStar 4SE ...

At the eclipse's maximum, which occured at 9.15pm on the night, just 12 per cent ... While we tend to think of the Moon as being a big object in the sky, it's actually rather small and you can ...