Dec 2 - December Planets

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December guide to the bright planets In December 2018, the dazzlingly bright object up before the sun is Venus. Mercury and Jupiter join Venus in the east before sunup around mid-December. Saturn sets soon after sunset. Mars stays out until around midnight. Read more. When is my earliest sunset? For the southernmost U.S and similar latitudes, the earliest sunsets of the year are happening now. Your earliest sunset depends on your latitude, but always comes before the winter solstice. Read more. Adrian Strand captured this photo on a beach in northwest England. Why isn’t the earliest sunrise on the year's shortest day? Will December's full moon be a supermoon? The last of 2018's 13 full moons falls on December 22. It's the 3rd-closest full moon in 2018, but is it a supermoon? Read more. Live coverage of spacecraft arrival at asteroid tomorrow The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, December 3, at approximately 17:00 UTC (noon EST). Translate UTC to your time. NASA will air a live event beginning at 16:45 UTC (11:45 a.m. EST) to highlight the arrival of the agency’s first asteroid sample return mission. How to watch.

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Moon and Venus December 2 to 4 Monday morning - December 3 - will be the best time to spot the moon and Venus in the east before sunup. Here's wishing you clear skies!

Messier 33: 2nd-closest spiral galaxy Triangulum galaxy, aka Messier 33. is 2.7 million light-years away, and the 3rd-largest member of our Local Group, after the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. Image via the VLT Survey Telescope at European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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