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NASA’s skywatching tips for July include an ‘eagle’
NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...
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July 2025: What's in the sky this month? Venus tracks through Taurus, more Titan transits at Saturn, and Jupiter reappears
Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...
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Webb’s Mid-Infrared Breakthrough Unveils Young Saturn-Mass Exoplanet Sculpting Its Own Debris Disk
How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...
Webb should be able to detect exo-Jupiters and exo-Saturns
Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...
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The brightest planets in July's night sky: How to see them (and when)
Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...
What’s up in the sky for July 2025? Ruby red Antares star, Venus dims and much more
Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...
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Newly identified planet is a rare 'miniature Saturn' orbiting a red dwarf
Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...
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What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?
Recent probe missions, like Juno and Cassini, have orbited Jupiter and Saturn, respectively. The information these probes sent back has changed that view. On September 15, 2017, Cassini plunged ...
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Sechelt Skies: Saturn and the ice giants
At the time of this writing, June 23, Jupiter was about half a degree left of the afternoon Sun and due to pass behind it ...