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Venus, Saturn and and moon

New moon of April 2025 sees Venus and Saturn join up in the sky this weekend

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conjunction) in the predawn sky.

WTOP · 3d

‘Smiley face’ alignment of moon and planets in view Friday morning

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon on Friday morning before dawn.

NPR · 2d

Mercury, Venus and Saturn to delight stargazers in a parade across the sky

Alongside a crescent moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn will become visible to stargazers just before dawn on Friday morning. According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise,

Live Science1d

Saturn: Facts about the ringed planet

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

MrSpherical on MSN9d

Planets vs Moons

Venus and Mars meet Ganymede and Europa. The choices made in this encounter will change the destiny of the Solar System ...

Smithsonian Magazine3d

Scientists Strive to Explain the Strange Weather on Other Planets

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Cosmic Parade: Planets, the Moon, and a Comet Dazzle Over Paranal

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

How the sun’s motion affects meteor showers

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Science Daily2d

Solar System News

Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ... has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that ...

Planetary scientists reveal how the Earth and Moon actually formed

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Space.com on MSN4d

We took a guided tour of the solar system in Elite Dangerous, and now you can too (interview)

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

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