... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why Join? ... Jupiter joins Venus in the early evening . ... That more brilliant one is Venus, and it s currently having its best showing for northern observers of 2015 as it shines brightest and appears highest in the evening sky. ... Only the Full Moon itself climbing higher in the southeastern sky this evening appears brighter. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

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... Cassini Approaches Saturn . ... Cassini, a robot spacecraft launched in 1997 by NASA, became close enough in 2002 to resolve many rings and moons of its destination planet: Saturn. ... Taken on March 20 from the top of Haleakala on the isle of Maui, planet Earth, the first sunrise of northern spring is pictured in this vacation snapshot. ... Auroras and the Magnetosphere of Jupiter . ... Discovered in 2004, the planet Cancri 55 e has twice the diameter of our Earth and about 10 times Earth's mass. ...

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... Gallery . ... Planet Pictures . Mars . The moons of Mars . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Sidebar Right . View full size . Title: The moons of Mars . Description: The view above shows an over-exposed planet Mars with its moons Phobos and Deimos either side. Deimos is at the far left while Phobos is to the right in the "halo-glow". ... The moons of Mars The view above shows an over-exposed planet Mars with its moons Phobos and Deimos either side. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

Mariners 6 & 7 to Mars . ... Mariners 6 and 7 were designed to fly over the equator and southern hemisphere of the planet Mars . ... One hundred million kilometers (62 million miles) later, Mariner 6 encountered Mars on July 31, 1969; Mariner 7 reached the planet four days later on August 4, 1969. ... Mariner 6 & 7 . ... View of Mars from Mariner 6 . This cratered surface of Mars was photographed by Mariner 6's wide angle TV camera on July 30, 1969 at a range of 3,459 kilometers (2,150 miles). ...