NASA successfully launched Landsat 9, a satellite designed to track changes on our planet to inform on key areas such as climate change, on Monday, Sept. 27. (Credit: NASA via Storyful)
NASA scientists have confirmed the existence of hundreds of new planets outside of our solar system. NASA said 301 exoplanets have been newly validated and added to the total tally.
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We close 2021, which was a great year for skywatchers, filled with many observing treats in our night skies, with a December filled with planets, meteors and, maybe, a bright comet.
Venus will peak in maximum brightness just after sunset, and the annual Geminid meteor shower will peak Dec. 14. And it is possible that a comet will reach unaided eye visibility in mid-December.
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In astrology, a retrograde has a way of making you feel like everything has been flipped upside down. This is when a planet begins moving backward in its trajectory throughout the zodiac, making it harder to get things done, focus on the future, and come up with a clear plan.
If you're new to astrology, the mere mention of the word "retrograde" may make you feel like climbing under a rock and hiding from the world. However, only a few retrogrades are truly worth worrying about.
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Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our Sun, is like a treasure trove with many scientific discoveries just waiting to be found. Part of what makes it so compelling is that our efforts to detect extrasolar planets there have failed to yield any concrete results to date.
In the coming decades, Breakthrough Initiatives plans to send a mission there known as Starshot, a lightsail craft that could make the journey in 20 years. On Nov. 16th , Breakthrough Initiatives announced another project for detecting exoplanets next door.
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As we move closer to the end of the month of November, the southwestern sky in Iowa is now host to three of our brightest planets, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter.
Of the three bodies, Venus, which lies closer to the southwestern horizon, is shining at a brilliant magnitude of -4.5. If you view the planet with a pair of binoculars, you should also be able to spot the Messier cluster M-8, the Lagoon Nebula is a very small distance just above it.
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Mercury is the speed champion in our Solar System. It orbits the Sun every 88 days, and its average speed is 47 km/s. Its average distance from the Sun is 58 million km (36 million mi), and it’s so fast it’s named after Mercury, the wing-footed God.
But what if instead of Mercury, Jupiter was closest to the Sun? And what if Jupiter was even closer to the Sun than Mercury and far hotter?
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The planet Mercury, one of the closest to planet Earth, is also one of the rarest according to its characteristics.
Metallic planets are those whose core is rich in iron with little or no mantle. Mercury is the largest celestial body of these characteristics within the Solar System, since the other planets are made of silicate. But larger iron-rich exoplanets may exist.
The James Webb telescope will let astronomers peer into exoplanet skies
The James Webb telescope's launch has been delayed till at least December 22 after a clamp fastening it to its ride malfunctioned. But when the spacecraft finally gets to orbit, exoplanet astronomers look forward to a game-changing view of exoplanets.
One in two sun-like stars in our galaxy has a sub-Neptune exoplanet, a world between the size of Earth and Neptune, says Jacob Bean , an exoplanet astronomer at the University of Chicago and co-leader of two planned exoplanet observations outlined in a recent NASA announcement .
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The sun is in Ophiuchus through Dec. 17, then moving into Sagittarius for the rest of December. Late December has the sun rise at 7:38 a.m., and sunset at 5:03 p.m.
The moon nearly lines up with the sun on Dec. 4 (new moon). There follows two weeks of the moon growing in lighted width (waxing), from a crescent to nearly full. The moon appears below the brilliant planet Venus on Dec. 6 in the western dusk.
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