People gazing up at the night sky this March will have the opportunity to see the Moon change color during a special eclipse ...
The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the reason for each of those colors.
Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...
Wednesday, February 5 First Quarter Moon occurs at 3:02 A.M. EST. Nearly half a day later, the Moon passes 5° north of Uranus ...
Four planets are visible in the night sky immediately after sunset ... the red planet—visible below Jupiter—looks a golden-reddish color to the naked eye. On Jan. 13, the first full moon ...
The pair shine together in the early-evening sky, still 30° high in the southwest ... Castor is a much hotter star — see if you can make out its color, which should appear blue-white ...
The interaction causes the atoms in Earth's atmosphere to glow, creating a spectrum of color in the night sky. A view of the Northern Lights by the Eklutna Lake in Alaska, December 31, 2024.