What happened to all the planets in the evening sky? Three of them – the rocky planets of Mercury, Venus, and Mars – shine unobtrusively in the west-northwest shortly after sunset. To find them, you must look carefully or they will escape notice.
Look directly west when darkness falls at 9:30 pm on April 28. About 45 degrees above the horizon twinkle two stars, Castor and Pollux of Gemini. Below them half way to the horizon, shines another object, though not quite as brightly as the first two. That is Mars – the same Mars where NASA's Perseverance rover landed two months ago and is now investigating the surface of the crater Jezero.
Breakdown: Why you should look up-two planets visible
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) -Right after sunset on the evenings of Friday April 23rd through Sunday April 25, look toward the west-northwestern horizon, where Mercury will be moving past Venus which will be brighter than Mercury.
On Saturday, Mercury will be positioned just a little bit away from Venus and will be on Venus' lower right. On Sunday and Monday Mercury will be positioned upper right of Venus.
The best viewing times will be at about 8 p.m. but make sure that sun has completely disappeared below the horizon before using binoculars or telescopes in your search.
The future of Earth is 5 other planets
You've got one ticket off Earth. Where do you go? There are a few possible planets we can go to and some are definitely better than others. There's surviving — where we can make it work with a lot of sacrifices, but it won't be easy — and then there's thriving: finding a truly new home for humanity instead of a stopgap.
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The best telescope for viewing planets - Chicago Tribune
Stargazing can be fascinating, but the constellations remain just pinpoints of light, even for powerful telescopes. The planets, on the other hand, provide alien landscapes to explore, and, for many, these become the prime focus. Planetary telescopes have been developed specifically to fulfill that need. We've been looking at them in some detail to help you pick the best for your budget.
Our favorite telescope for viewing planets is the NexStar 6SE from market leader Celestron . While it does require a considerable investment, it's packed with valuable features and can produce spectacular views.
Neighboring Star's Bad Behavior: Large and Frequent Flares – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets
Artist's rendering of a flaring red-dwarf star. Our nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, often erupts in large and powerful flares, a new study shows. Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
The star known as Proxima Centauri, the Sun’s nearest interstellar neighbor, turns out to have a hair-trigger temper – frequently erupting with potentially damaging stellar flares, including its largest ever recorded.
Proxima Centauri has produced a record-breaking solar flare into the galaxy
Led by a team of researchers at CU Boulder in Colorado, a study of the fantastic flare was published this week in the online journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters . Officially categorized as a Red Dwarf, Proxima Centauri is about one-eighth the mass of our own star and lies four light-years away.
MacGregor is an assistant professor at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) and Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) at CU Boulder in Colorado.
Using exoplanets as dark matter detectors: Temperature of planets reveal new details, scientists
In the continuing search for dark matter in our universe, scientists believe they have found a unique and powerful detector: exoplanets.
In a new paper, two astrophysicists suggest dark matter could be detected by measuring the effect it has on the temperature of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.
This could provide new insights into dark matter, the mysterious substance that can't be directly observed, but which makes up roughly 80% of the mass of the universe.
The Planet Personalities of Astrology and How to Find Yours | Well+Good
People with a strong stellium might be a cosmic mixture of sorts, belonging to two different planets. “Even if their rising sign is totally different, people with stelliums will radiate the energy of the ruling planet of their Stellium sign alongside their chart ruler planet,” Lettman says. “A person with an Aries rising is Martian. If they have three personal planets in Gemini, however, they are also Mercurial.”
Like the fiery orb in the sign, solar energy emits and radiates light. This makes Solarians warm, superabundant and natural leaders.
Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped about 3.5 billion years ago - North
Determining the ages of effusive volcanic deposits can give researchers a handle on a planet�s geological history. For example, effusive volcanism was active a few hundred million years ago on Venus, a few million years ago on Mars, and it still takes place on Earth today. Until now, the duration of effusive volcanic activity on Mercury, made of the same materials as these other planets, had not been known.
The large arc-shaped pit located on the eastern side of its floor are postulated to have formed when subsurface magma subsided or drained, causing the surface to collapse into the resulting void. photo courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Humongous flare from sun's nearest neighbor breaks records | CU Boulder Today | University of
Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun's nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri.
CU Boulder astrophysicist Meredith MacGregor explained that Proxima Centauri is a small but mighty star. It sits just four light-years or more than 20 trillion miles from our own sun and hosts at least two planets, one of which may look something like Earth. It's also a "red dwarf," the name for a class of stars that are unusually petite and dim.
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