For North Americans, this is an eye-catching sight, visible even from brightly lit cities.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 30The crescent Moon lies in Cancer this evening, just a ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

It will become noticeably less gibbous by mid-spring. In early June, Venus reaches dichotomy (displaying a "half-moon" shape). Then, for the rest of the spring into early summer it displays an ...

At their closest, they’re expected to be just half a degree apart — about ... but they are a striking spectacle to view. After the moon, Jupiter and Venus are currently the brightest objects ...

Venus and the moon will be about one degree ... The Sun always illuminates half of the Moon while the other half remains dark, but how much we are able to see of that illuminated half changes ...

The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 ... Nonetheless, Mercury still looks smaller because it is less than half the diameter of Venus, which is roughly Earth’s size. Although no one could ...

I managed to take a half-dozen pictures before clouds engulfed ... view to the northwest to see the June 19 crescent moon in Gemini. Venus and Mars will also be nearby. The moon will be just ...

An illustration of the new moon of April 2025 and its position ... Saturn will be at about 5 and a half degrees, to the right of Venus. They will be challenging to spot as the sun rises in New ...

The solar system’s smallest planet will be relatively easy to spot during the first half of ... the moon’s trajectory in the sky will take it away from Mercury and Venus, towards another ...