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.
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.
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.
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.
