Tag: solar-system
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Saturn’s Moons Janus and Epimetheus Orbit Very Strangely
Today’s video, we are going to take a look at a couple of Saturn’s moons. Saturn is on its way back into the morning sky. For many people, those a little closer to the equator, Saturn is already back into the morning sky, but this early in May, Saturn is still just barely out of…
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Vesta, Pallas and Ceres: Asteroids by the Sun
Today we are going to take a look at some of the larger asteroids that are in the asteroid belt. We’re starting with the sky during the day for the 1st of May. With the atmosphere turned off, we can see planets around the Sun, particularly Mercury, Mars and Saturn on the western side of…
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Sun-Saturn Superior Conjunction!
Today we are going to be looking at yet another conjunction. This conjunction is a little bit different from the conjunctions that we’ve taken a look at recently. Among those conjunctions was a conjunction of Saturn and Venus. That was at its best at around the seventh, so just past as of the date of…
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The Greatest Eastern Elongation of Mercury: Visible to the West!
Today we are looking at something that is happening on the date that this article is published, for the second time this week. Normally, I tend to look further into the future on this channel, but there happen to be events coinciding with the dates of posting at the moment. The last piece was about…
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The Geminids and 3200 Phaethon: December Meteor Shower
Today we are going to be looking at a meteor shower that is coming up in the month of December. Taking a look at the sky for mid-December, just coming up to 8 o’clock Gemini is already in the sky. We’re looking for the Geminids, the Geminid Meteor Shower and the radiant is up in…
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Comets and Meteor Showers: The Leonids and 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
Today we are going to begin by looking back to the Leonid meteor shower which happened, which peaked just a couple of days ago. To see the radiant of this meteor shower nice and high, we need the constellation Leo to be up, which it is now at about 3 o’clock in the morning. With…
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Asteroid 2025 PN7: A Temporary Moon
In several recent pieces we have taken a look at a few different comets and a lot of them were discovered just this year. For example, Comet 3I/ATLAS, which is an interstellar comet, it’s full name is 2025 3I/ATLAS, it was only discovered this year. In order to take a look at this comet in…
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Comets and Meteor Showers: The Orionids and Halley’s Comet
Today, we’re starting by looking at the sky for October 21st. We’re looking at the sky reasonably late, just before midnight. We’re looking at the 21st because we are taking a look for the Orionid meteor shower, and they peak on October 21st. This meteor shower have got a maximum Zenith Hourly Rate of about…
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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 Parade of Planets is Yet to Come and Earth in Retrograde!
Having taken a look at Mars at opposition and how Mars enters into a strange, temporary, apparent retrograde motion during that time, we are going to take a look at the Earth doing the same. Of course, to see the Earth at opposition, we need to head to Venus or Mercury. However, before that I…
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