Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the last month, you'll know Venus dominates the post-sunset night sky. Tonight ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon ... night sky. Look south anytime after dark, and you'll see the red planet Mars just a couple of degrees from bright star ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Mars will appear to make an ultraclose approach to the moon on Sunday, after Jupiter had a turn earlier this week. Here's how ...

Let’s start at M37, a magnitude 6.2 cluster that spans about 24’, or half the width of the Full Moon ... star’s lower right in the post-sunset sky. This region is visible roughly all night ...

Keep an eye on the sky Monday evening to see the wolf moon, the first full moon ... rotate westward around the bright star Polaris and will be visible each night beginning early in the evening.

A bonus to the show is that stars Castor and Pollux, Mars and the moon will form a nearly straight line in the night sky. Again, the moon's brightness might make seeing these two stars difficult.

One example is the Quadrantids, which may bring around 120 “shooting stars ... crescent moon tonight. From London, Saturn will disappear at 17:21 GMT in the southern sky and reappear at ...