The best planetary party in 18 years has begun. Like a 17th-century astronomer, you can join it by just looking up.
Throughout June, sky-watchers can see Earth's five closest planetary neighbors in a row with their naked eyes. About half an hour before sunrise, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are aligned in their natural order from the sun stretching in a diagonal starting low in the east.
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In 2022, NASA surpassed 5,000 confirmed exoplanets , which are alien worlds beyond our solar system. These include a diversity of distant planets, including (perhaps rocky) super-Earths, gas giants like Jupiter, "ice giants" like Neptune , and beyond.
Meta Looks to Improve Digital Literacy Through New 'Pledge Planets' Series in Messenger ...
Meta is looking to do its part to advance digital literacy, with the final episode of its new ' Pledge Planets ' online safety series now available within Messenger Kids.
As you can see in this video, 'Pledge Planets' aims to provide lessons in how to stay safe while engaging online, while also maintaining respect for others and how they view your comments and actions within shared spaces.
The mysteries at the edge of the solar system keep growing
The intrigue: Unlocking the mysteries of the ice giants will also allow scientists to learn more about worlds far beyond our own solar system.
What to watch: So far, the only mission to visit Neptune and Uranus from close range was a quick flyby of the worlds made by Voyager 2 in the 1980s, but that could change in the relatively near future.
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Parade season is underway for the first time in several pandemic years, with the Hazel Dell Parade and Portland's many Rose Festival parades returning public celebrations to local streets.
Celestial parade season is getting underway too, with a grand procession of planets preparing a predawn march above the eastern horizon later this month.
Transit Least-squares Survey IV.
Provisional pointing of PLATO's northern (NPF) and southern (SPF) long-duration phase fields in an all-sky Aitoff projection using Galactic coordinates (an updated version is available in Nascimbeni et al. 2022). The centers of the NPF and SPF are covered by 24 cameras (light blue).
In its long-duration observation phase, the PLATO satellite will observe two non-overlapping fields for a total of 4 yr. The exact duration of each pointing will be determined 2 yr before launch.
See a Strawberry Moon, 5 Planets at Once, a Meteor Shower, and More Astro Events This Month | ...
Even though May's lunar eclipse brought stargazers out in force, June's action-packed roster of celestial events promises to keep those eyes on the sky.
This month's nighttime spectacles run the gamut from a dazzling supermoon, when the month's at its brightest, and visibility of not one but five planets at once.
RIT professor earns NASA grant to study baby stars and newborn planets closest to Earth
A team of Rochester Institute of Technology scientists is poring over NASA data for new insights about Earth's youngest, closest neighbors. Joel Kastner , a professor in RIT's Chester F.
Kastner and his team will study a group of about 150 stars that are only about 5 million years old, roughly one-thousandth of our own sun's age, still babies in stellar terms.
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Samantha Lawler receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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