You can see all 5 bright planets in the early evening sky in December 2022. You will need to start looking shortly after sunset, as Venus and Mercury are close to sunset glare. Scanning with binoculars will help reveal them, but also try with your eye alone. Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars will be easy to …
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A3 Tidal disturbance graph. Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology Earlier this year, astronomers were monitoring data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an all-sky survey based at the Palomar Observatory in California, when they detected an extraordinary flash in a part of the sky …
Image: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology On a clear night last February, a sophisticated astronomical camera perched on top of a California mountain opened its eyes to the sky after being turned off for several days due to problems. The timing turned out to …
