From mid-northern latitudes, the June 2025 Full Moon will really skim the treetops to the south… while 'north of the 60' in ...

Scientists may have found a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at a wild 90-degree tilt—something never seen before.

Regarding the right ascensions and declinations of celestial objects for the purposes of amateur astronomy, some coordinates change and some do not (except over very long periods of time). Objects ...

“The vernal equinox occurs at the precise point where the ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect,” it added. The intersection is called the First Point of Aries, according to PAGASA. But due the ...

At 9.01am today, March 20th, the sun crossed the Earth’s equator, marking the vernal equinox, the date when the direction of sunrise is due east and sunset due west. The Earth’s axis is at ...

So, what exactly is the equinox? Dr. Creighton says, “The official definition would be where the celestial equator meets the ecliptic. It is the two times of the year in two places, if you will ...

We can officially say goodbye to winter on Thursday at 5:01 a.m. Eastern time — this is the moment when the center of the sun’s disc stands directly above the Earth’s equator and enters the ...

The Northern Hemisphere will mark the arrival of spring on March 20 with the vernal equinox, an astronomical event that occurs when the sun crosses the celestial equator, bringing nearly equal ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory ...

In special years this tilt adds to the ecliptic's own inclination and ... from about 28.5 degrees north of the celestial equator to 28.5 degrees south. In contrast, during 2016-16 the lunar ...

Due to the moon’s orbit being tilted at 5.1 degrees to the ecliptic, its range of motion is even greater ... spanning from about 28.5 degrees north of the celestial equator to 28.5 degrees south. This ...