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From Dust and Gas to Rogue Planets and Brown Dwarfs
Happy Halloween everybody! This piece should be coming out before the 31st but this is the closest to Halloween that I will be posting. We’re going to go on a bit of a journey through a few things today. We’re starting by taking a look at the night sky for Halloween, moving all the way…
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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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Late October Sky: Comets and More | An Spéir Déanach i mí Dheireadh Fómhair: Cóiméid agus Níos Mó
Today, we will be looking at the sky for the second half of the month of October and we’re going to start in the morning, rather than at sunset as we usually do. Looking at the sky in the southeast before sunrise on the 17th, the planets Jupiter and Venus are prominently visible. It is…
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Comets in October: 3I/ATLAS and C/2025 A6 Lemmon!
Today, we are going to take a look at a couple of comets, including the interstellar comet 3I ATLAS. However, we’re going to start with a comet that was discovered much earlier this year, Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. From the first part of the name, C/2025, we know this was a comet that was discovered…
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The Motion of the Constellations
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky in October. We will be looking at the constellations, but we aren’t going to stick with just this month. Rather, we are going to see how the constellations will shift from this month into winter. You may have seen my previous piece…
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Ancient Constellations: The Sky in the 1800s BCE
Today, we are going backwards in time! We are going to go into the past instead of looking into the future as we normally do. I have taken a look at ancient skies before, but that was quite a while ago. We are going all the way back to the 1800s in this video, and…
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October Meteor Showers: The Orionids and Draconids!
Today, we are yet again looking to the October sky, and we’re going to look at a couple of the minor events that we skipped over in the previous piece. I mentioned last time that the Moon is having a reasonable conjunction with Saturn early in the month, and we’re coming forward to the Full…
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A Look Ahead to October: A Supermoon, Occultation and Conjunctions
Today, we are going to take a look into the month of October. We’ve already seen so much of the late September sky, we’re going to go a little bit into October, rather than starting on the 1st. We’re going to jump a couple of days into the month in order to see some of…
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Oppositions and an Eclipse around the Equinox | Urchomhaireacht agus Urú timpeall an Comhnocht
Today, we will be looking at the sky for late September, especially around the day of the equinox. I won’t talk about the equinox itself that much, but you can search my previous posts to find a few more focused discussions of it. I have talked about the late September sky already, however the attached…
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