Daily Astronomy Fix

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 is ready to launch to the ISS on April 22! The Crew-2 flight includes mission specialist Thomas Pesquet from ESA, pilot Megan McArthur and commander Shane Kimbrough both from NASA, and mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide from JAXA (left to right). NASA TV LIVE launch coverage . Photo...

Sixty years ago today, the world was in awe as Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to break the bounds of the Earth and travel into outer space on board Vostok 1. Fascinated with flight at an early age, he became a pilot and then joined the Soviet...

Can you spot Mars in the west during twilight? The Red Planet is still within the horns of the bull and both are sinking lower in the spring sky. Photo credit: SkySafari

The Moon is all a buzz in the Beehive Cluster tonight. Get out your binos and join the swarm! At only 600 LYs away, M44 is one of the closest star clusters to us and is full of 1,000+ young Suns spanning the area of 3 full Moons (1.5 degrees)...

It’s FINALLY Spring! The Sun crossed the celestial equator early this morning at 3:37a.m. The Sun rises due east and and sets due west on the equinoxes, plus day and night are approximately equal in length. Get out there and enjoy your ride on spaceship Earth! Want to see real-time...

Tonight’s forecast calls for a few flakes of snow & cloudy skies, but should it clear to the south, look for the brightest star in our Earthly skies - SIRIUS! From the Greek word scorching, Sirius is 8.6 LYs away (a mere 51 trillion miles) in the constellation of Canis...

Up before the Sun? Grab your binos and scan the eastern horizon early on Wednesday morning to spot Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and the Moon all within the mythical seagoat Capricornus. Photo credit: Stellarium

Have you spotted the Lion lounging on the eastern horizon? The beautiful stars of Algenubi, Rasalas, Adhafera, Algieba, and Regulus outline Leo’s head, mane and front paw, while Zosma and Chertan draw the back and hindleg, and Denebola completes the picture with a fur-tipped tail. If you have a telescope...

Grab your binos and take some time to unwind with the dazzling celestial clusters in Taurus. The Pleiades are high in the eastern sky with the Hyades directly below admist the eyes of the bull. These two clusters have been admired since antiquity. While ever-changing and always in motion, we...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover is just 2 days from touching down on the Red Planet. The spacecraft launched from Earth on July 30 and has been racing to Mars at almost 50,000mph. Will it find signs of ancient life? Can it collect samples of rock for a future sample return...