This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

Venus reaches its point of greatest western elongation on June 1, at which time the dazzling 'morning star' will be at its ...

As it travels, the Moon’s shape – or phase – alters as different amounts of its surface are lit up by the Sun’s rays, Nigel ...

Finally, trace the Sun’s apparent yearly path against the background stars to make one last circle. This is the ecliptic. The Sun crosses the celestial equator twice each year at the March and ...

From mid-northern latitudes, the June 2025 Full Moon will really skim the treetops to the south… while 'north of the 60' in ...

We call this path the ecliptic. That motion doesn’t change appreciably year after year, century after century; the sun follows the same well-worn path through the same constellations.

No. From our viewpoint on Earth, the planets will form an arc, not a straight line. This is due to the ecliptic plane, the path along which the planets orbit the sun. This is a rare opportunity to ...

This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels along during the year. This happens because the planets orbit around the sun in the same plane. Dr. van Belle likened the ...