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The Alpha Capricornids and Southern delta Aquariids start at different times but peak on the same day this month.
White-tailed deer start growing antlers in March or April as the days start to lengthen. July marks the peak of their antler ...
And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...
Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...
The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...
The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...
July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...
Named for famed astronomer Vera Rubin, best known for discovering evidence of dark matter, the observatory will spend the next 10 years observing and collecting data on the southern night sky in ...