Apr 16 - Will You See Tonight's Young Moon?

April 16 Will You See Tonight's Young Moon? by:

Tonight … Will you see the young moon? It's a wonderful evening for young moon hunting from North America or a Pacific island. The moon will be west after sunset, below brilliant Venus. Other parts of the world ... Tuesday evening will offer an even more spectacular view. Asteroid buzzed Earth this weekend It swept by at half the moon's distance Sunday, just hours after being detected. Its size is 3 to 6 times that of the space rock that penetrated the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. Watch the launch of the TESS planet-hunter TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Lift-off is planned for no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday (10:32 p.m. UTC; translate UTC to your time). Go, go TESS! Impossibly starry skies over NYC This week is International Dark Sky Week. Celebrate by watching this impossible, but magical, video of dark, starry skies over light-polluted New York City. It's new from Project Skyglow. Wonderful image: Milky Way spins across the sky Astrophotographer and optics expert Christian Sasse has been featured in National Geographic and Nature. Check out his novel approach in his newest image.

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Monday evening's young moon If you do see the moon tonight, it'll be low in the western twilight, beneath the planet Venus. Look soon after sunset.

Milky Way spins across the sky This composite from Christian Sasse - centered on celestial south - is made of images taken hourly from outside the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring. It shows the apparent movement of the Milky Way across the sky. Animated images from Christian Sasse, here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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