The three planets will appear in a line extending up at about a 30-degree angle in the southeast night sky, from Mars low in the sky right and up to Saturn and then right and to Jupiter.
The Moon, in its last-quarter phase, will appear to be approaching from the right and at 5 a.m. it will be lined up under Saturn.
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Both of those will be alignments only in appearance from Earth. While the moon will be about 243,000 miles from Earth, Mars will be about 125 million miles, Jupiter will be about 473 million miles and Saturn will be 936 million miles.
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When is Easter? That's easy—Easter is on Sunday, April 12, 2020 for western christians and on Sunday, April 19, 2020 for eastern orthodox christians.
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In China, Lunar New Year is celebrated by a billion people; it always occurs in late January or during one of the first three weeks of February. In 2020, it occurred on Saturday, January 25—the day of the New Moon.
The Jewish festival of Passover is held on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, a lunar month determined by the moon's phases, so Passover is always on a full moon day.
Why does President Trump want to mine on the Moon? - BBC News
The order also said the US did not see space as a common area for resources, and didn't need permission of international agreements to get started.
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According to Sarah Cruddas, mining the Moon will help humans travel further in space, to places like Mars.
Sarah's a space journalist and says the Moon can become "an intergalactic petrol station" - because it has the resources needed for rocket fuel - like hydrogen and oxygen.
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Apr 14, 2020 — The planet Venus and the constellation Orion are bright in the evening sky, but the real treat comes in early morning, when three visible planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, will be clustered around the waning crescent moon.
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Sky watching is an ideal social distancing recreation, according to St. Lawrence University physics professor and astronomer Aileen O'Donoghue. She joins us monthly on The Eight O'Clock Hour to point our what's going on over our heads while most of the rest of us lie abed.
Air Force eyeing technology to monitor space traffic near the moon - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — Under a U.S. Air Force small business innovation contract, a team of space startups is working on a concept to collect and analyze information about objects and activities in cislunar space near the moon.
"This is a Phase 1 study to investigate intelligence gathering as it pertains to the lunar domain," Nathan Parrott, director of Saber Astronautics USA, told SpaceNews.
Saber Astronautics and Rhea Space Activity announced on April 6 they won a $50,000 Air Force study contract to develop a concept for collecting and managing lunar intelligence. Saber Astronautics is headquartered in Australia and has U.S.-based operations in Colorado. Rhea Space Activity is based in Washington, D.C.
'World of Tanks Blitz' just transformed the moon into a tank battleground | Space
If you love space and also tanks, you're in luck. "World of Tanks Blitz" wants to fly you to the moon this week.
The free-to-play tank battle game has transformed the Sea of Tranquility — yes, the famed landing site of NASA's Apollo 11 mission — into a lunar battleground in a new Gravity Force mode. The limited-time game mode features crazy physics that send you flying across the lunar surface on cannon recoil and shows what tank fighting just might look like in the one-sixth gravity of the moon.
'At least something worked': Watch Apollo 13's crew hail a rocket crash on the moon | Space
After piloting a crippled spacecraft around the far side of the moon, the crew of NASA's stricken Apollo 13 received a rare bit of good news on April 14, 1970. It turns out, they'd made a moonquake.
A new video of Apollo 13's flight , NASA has pieced together synchronized video, audio and imagery to chronicle the moment when Mission Control radioed the success of the mission's seismic experiment. That experiment, which crashed an upper stage booster from Apollo 13's Saturn V rocket into the moon, was detected by a seismometer delivered to the lunar surface months earlier by the Apollo 12 crew.
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