EarthSky News - Jan 18 - Watch for Moon and Jupiter

January 18 Watch for Moon and Jupiter by:

Tonight … Moon, Jupiter, Spica late night until dawn The moon is sweeping past Jupiter around now. In fact - if you know where to look - you can find all 5 bright planets. Charts and info here. Last quarter moon is January 19 A last quarter moon rises around midnight. It appears half illuminated from Earth. The exact last quarter phase will come on January 19 at 22:13 UTC. Hubble spies exocomets' plunge into star Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging into the star HD 172555. Watch soap bubbles freeze A photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota captured this mesmerizing footage of soap bubbles freezing. It looks like time-lapse but it's actually in real time!

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Tonight … Moon, Jupiter, Spica late night until dawn This chart shows them late tonight, around midnight or shortly after, when they're ascending over the eastern horizon. But you can see them before dawn, too.

Speed of light Manuel Dietrich titled this photo Speed of Light. He captured it in the Black Forest of southwest Germany. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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