Year’s only full lunar eclipse will turn the moon bloodred One of our planet’s most staggering sights is coming to the skies – a super blood Moon. In the year’s just full lunar overshadowing, Earth will divide the Sun and the Moon. Falling completely into Earth’s shadow, the Moon will gradually obscure prior to turning … Read more
A rare partial solar eclipse, first of 2022 observed over South America Skygazers across parts of the Southern Hemisphere were blessed to observe the moon overshadowing the sun for the first time in the year today. The half solar eclipse of April 30, one of two occurring in 2022, cleared over pieces of South America, … Read more
Jupiter and Venus appear close to colliding from Earth this Saturday Gaze upward overhead at the right second on Saturday. You could see two of the planetary group’s most brilliant planets practically contacting. Venus and Jupiter will be a great many miles separated, however, from Earth, they will show up almost colliding. This planetary combination … Read more
Santa Clarita’s local bunch Astronomy Club facilitated a star gathering at Vasquez Rocks on Saturday for the first time in over a year. The club, which put a quarterly gathering on pause for a pandemic, returned Saturday at a workshop to help new telescope proprietors utilize their equipment. Club coordinators carried their own telescopes … Read more
Astronomy sheds brilliant light on the solar system and our place in the universe. Much of our understanding of outer space comes from a different discipline, geology. Particles from the solar wind were returned safely to Earth by NASA’s Genesis mission in 2004. Owing to the Apollo and Luna missions we have rock from the … Read more
