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  • Saturn and Jupiter Conjunction in 2080!

    Today, we are going to once again be taking a look into the far future. I have done this on previous occasions where we take a look, often quite far, into the future, and we will be going quite far into the future this time as well. The last event that we took a look

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  • The Stars in August!

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for August yet again, but we’re going to concentrate on the constellations and a couple of the other features of the August sky. We’ll start just a little after sunset, at 11:30. The sky is almost as dark as it’s going to

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  • A Comparison of Meteor Showers: July versus August

    Today, we are going to take a quick look at a few different meteor showers, beginning with the meteor showers that are peaking at the moment in late July. Then we’ll take a look ahead to the meteor shower that will be peaking once we come into August. We’re starting with sunset on the 28th

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  • The Night Sky in August: Conjunctions and More!

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at the coming month of August. We will start on the first day of August, Lá Fhéile Lughnasadh, as it’s known in Ireland. Lughnasadh is the month of August and the first day is the Festival of August. We’re finally getting out of summertime, so the

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  • The Occultation of Neptune by Mercury in 2067

    Today, we are going to yet again take a look into the far future for some interesting events. We will be looking quite far into the future this time, decades and decades into the future, not just later this year or in a couple of years as we’ve looked at in the most recent couple

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  • Breith Réalta | The Birth of a Star

    For today, we will be looking at stars. I know that we look the stars in every piece, one way or the other. Even if we are talking more about the planets or something like that, the stars are always behind them, the stars are in the sky. We’re still looking at them while we

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  • Uranus and Neptune: Lonely Ice Giants

    Today we are going to take a closer look at the planets Neptune and Uranus. We have taken a look at both planets before, each in their own separate post on this website, so if you want to take a look back at the pieces dedicated to Neptune and Uranus individually, they are still up

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  • Titan versus the Icy Moons: Different Biospheres

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. We may take a look at a couple of other moons as well, but Saturn’s moons are more reasonably visible at this time of the year than Jupiters. Around the middle of the month, the Moon is pretty close to Saturn,

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  • The Moon in July, a Harvest Moon?

    Today, we are going to take a look at the Moon. We are coming up to the Full Moon for the month of July, so we’re going to take a look at how the Moon is going to behave from here to the end of the month. As some of you may remember, I am

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  • Venus and Regulus Align in 2044 and a Bright Mars in 2050

    Today, we are going to continue looking into the future for some interesting future events. If you’d like to know what the sky is going to look like for July, just take a look back at a couple of previous posts on this website. I looked at the night sky in July, what different things

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