Winter is Coming! in December of 2020. And with it, a beautiful solar eclipse and three meteor showers in this month’s Astronomy post. The New Moon on December 14th will give a stunning display of a Total Solar Eclipse. December 21st begins the astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere. 2020 ends with a bang with three different meteor showers on the 13th and 22nd. The Ursid Meteor Shower will be easy to see from the Northern Hemisphere!
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Monthly Astronomy for November 2020
After the astronomically busy Halloween, November 2020 starts off the colder months with a bang. This month’s full moon gives us a prenumbral lunar eclipse, while Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon give us a show on the 19th. Even if the weather is cold, hopefully that means clear night skies for stargazing!
Monthly Astronomy for October 2020
October starts with the year’s Harvest Moon, the closest full moon to the Autumn Equinox. Halloween 2020 will be illuminated with a Blue Moon, the second full moon of this month. Even if you cannot attend the usual autumn festivities in person, there are plenty of celestial celebrations to watch at night.
Monthly Astronomy for September 2020
September 2020 ends the warm summer but beautiful autumn leaves are right around the corner. In the northern hemisphere, Fall begins on September 22nd. The Piscid Meteor Shower peaks on the 21st, and there are great astrophotography opportunities on the 11th & 25th!
Monthly Astronomy for August 2020
After the excitement of the NEOWISE Comet, August brings us a meteor shower encore. Most notably, the Perseid Meteor Shower will be at its peak during the early mornings of August 11th – 13th, but will be viewable for the week before and after. That’s not all! August is packed with great astrophotography opportunities.
Monthly Astronomy for June 2020
June 2020 is chalk full of astronomical phenomena! The summer solstice of the northern hemisphere happens this month, as well as a meteor shower, and two eclipses! This is a great time for astrophotography or simply admiring the cosmos.
Astronomy & Space – Where to Read the Celestial News
Wednesday’s SpaceX Crew Dragon launch was postponed until this Saturday! Click here to learn more.
Astronomy, cosmology, astrophysics, and the computing associated with it are some of the hottest topics in science right now. Soon we may see the first manned space mission launched by a private company, and we are entering a new solar minimum era. We keep discovering more and more about what happens off of this planet. If you would like to keep up, here is where to start.
SpaceX Crew Dragon to Launch on Wednesday
The first manned, commercial spaceship will be launched on Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in a joint effort from NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The Crew Dragon capsule will then rendezvous with the International Space Station, the first American manned space fight since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. Learn more about the launch and how to watch.
Monthly Astronomy for April 2020
Moon Phases for April 2020 New Moon First Quarter Moon Full MoonSupermoon! Last Quarter Moon 22nd 1st, 30th 7th 14th Moon Facts Apogee: 20th Perigee: 7th Ascending Node: 27th Descending Node: 12th Moon Name: Pink Moon Meteor Showers Name Date Location (Constellation) Virginid Meteor Shower 12th Virgo Lyrid Meteor Shower 22nd Lyra Alpha Scorpiid Meteor READ MORE
Monthly Astronomy for January 2020
Moon Phases for January 2020 New Moon First Quarter Moon Full Moon Last Quarter Moon 24th 2nd 10th 17th Eclipses Penumbral Lunar Eclipse January 10th Moon Facts Apogee: 29th Perigee: 13th Ascending Node: 9th Descending Node: 22nd Moon Name: Wolf Moon Meteor Showers Name Date Location (Constellation) Quadrantid Meteor Shower 4th South of the Big READ MORE