Daily Astronomy Fix

Check out a compact triangle of planets rising in the east tomorrow morning shortly before dawn (6:15am MDT). Venus will be the brightest planet visible. Dimmer Saturn will be to the lower left and reddish Mars off to the right. Graphic credit: Stellarium

Celebrate the Spring Equinox at Fiske with a Colorado Skies talk on March 20 at 1pm! Learn more about why the Sun rises due east and sets due west on the equinoxes, plus why day and night are approximately equal in length. We'll also explore the spring constellations and let...

Watch the last full Moon of the winter season rise in the east tonight at about 7:45pm MDT. Send us your pictures ! Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

The waxing gibbous Moon will be your guide this evening for spotting the spring constellation of Leo. The lion rises earlier every evening revealing that spring is almost here. Graphic credit: Stellarium

Tonight the waxing crescent Moon is framed by Taurus’s famed Hyades cluster on the left and the Pleiades cluster on the right. Follow the ecliptic down from the Moon to spot ice-giant (and yes, a gassy planet with an atmosphere comprised of Hydrogen, Helium and Methane) Uranus through a telescope...

We LOVE rocky planets! Especially, our Earth! Grab your binos to see all of the solar system’s terrestrial gems Saturday, February 5th about 30 minutes before sunrise. Binos are optional for Earth, of course. Want to know more? Check out Sky & Telescope 's weekly article This Week at a...

It’s Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil can’t really predict the weather, but he can confirm his holiday has roots in ancient astronomy. February 2 is a cross-quarter day, meaning it's half way between the winter solstice & the spring equinox.

From Sky & Telescope magazine: The University of Colorado, Boulder, has unveiled a 1:10 billion scale-model solar system with an interactive sound experience. Have you ever longed to experience a planetary voyage through the solar system? Or to travel from the Sun from Jupiter? The University of Colorado, Boulder (CU...

Enjoy watching the first full Moon of 2022 tonight! Can you spot the bright craters Tycho & Copernicus with your unaided eye? Look for the dark, smooth mare too. Mare means seas in Latin, but we now know mare are ancient lava flows. It's amazing what we can see from...

Have you seen Sirius—the brightest star visible from Earth? Use Orion’s belt to draw a line to the lower left to spot the brilliant Dog Star in Canis Major. Sirius is 8.6 LYs away (a mere 51 trillion miles) and one of our nearest stellar neighbors.