The super Blue Moon happens before sunrise on January 31 for North America and Hawaii. It happens after sunset on January 31 for the Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Details here.
2018 will be an excellent year to view Mars. The planet will be closer to Earth - and brighter in our sky - than since 2003. But as big as the moon? Heck no.
Astronomers are searching for a hypothetical Planet 9 in the starry sky. You can use the constellation Orion to show you approximately where they're looking.
On January 21, 1968, in what came to be known as the Thule incident, a U.S. jet carrying 4 nuclear bombs crashed in Greenland, spreading radioactive wreckage across 3 square miles of a frozen fjord.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region on December 16, 2017, as it neared completion of its 10th close flyby of the gas giant planet.
If it exists, this world is about 6 to 40 million times fainter than the eye alone can see. Still, it's fun to imagine the place in the sky where astronomers are searching for Planet 9.
