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The moon, Venus and the Pleiades open star cluster will form an unusual celestial triangle on June 22. | Credit: Starry Night ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...
On June 22, the moon, Venus and the Pleiades star cluster will form an extraordinary celestial triangle in the predawn sky ...
Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...
The bright morning star Venus crosses from Aries into Taurus, closing in on Uranus for a conjunction later this week.
The Pleiades star cluster (also known as Messier 45) is a different beast entirely — a gravitationally bound collection of over a thousand stars found within the Milky Way some 445 light-years ...
This photo taken on June 23, 2025 shows a view of the Pleiades star cluster and a crescent moon in Yanshan Town of Fujin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Qu Yubao/Xinhua) ...
The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...
Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.
Pluto will reach its closest approach to Earth and align opposite the Sun on July 25, appearing slightly brighter (magnitude ...