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By Wausau Pilot & Review Staff This week’s night sky offers a mix of planetary pairings, comet sightings, and a striking ...
Watch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.
And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...
The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum ...
Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us ...
This week in Starwatch, I want you to go sky high to dig for some of the great visual treasures waiting for your eyes. Now ...
Plus, catch Saturn and Neptune at their brightest; spy the "string of pearls" galaxy; and a close encounter of the moon and ...
A telescope shows spectacular details of the moon’s surface features; Saturn’s rings, tipped 2° from edge-on in mid-September; Jupiter’s cloud belts and four bright moons; Venus in gibbous phase, ...
Since early spring, the constellation Bootes the Herdsman has graced our Butler night skies, but now it’s well into its ...
This week in Starwatch I want you to go sky-high to dig for some of the great visual treasures waiting for your eyes. And now ...