Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) ...

Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

March opens with a stunning pair of bright planets in conjunction in the western sky. Jupiter and Venus hang together in the evening, shining at magnitude –2.1 and –3.9, respectively. On March ...

This sky map from Starry Night Software shows the location of Mercury in the west northwestern sky about 40 minutes after sunset in New York City on April 16, 2022. It is low on the horizon, so ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Bolivia’s 4,000-square-mile Uyuni Salt Flats are a particularly good place to catch a desert sunset, since their reflective white surfaces mirror the endless blue sky.

The quintuple-feature starred a towering thunderhead, menacing shelf cloud, vibrant rainbow, glorious sunset and concluded with a fireball that shot across the night sky. 1. A towering ...