Oct 15 - Venus From Now to Next June

October 15 Venus From Now to Next June by:

Look west after sunset for Venus. It'll look like an unusually bright "star." It's low in the sky now, but will be grand by January. By May, with a telescope, you'll be able to see Venus wane to a thin crescent phase, shortly before it disappears in the sunset in June. Read more.

Venus from now to next June Venus is the brightest planet, always wonderful to see. It's coming back into view now in the evening sky. Click in for Northern and Southern Hemisphere views of Venus from October 2019 to June 2020, and some insights on the coming view of Venus in the evening sky, from astronomer Guy Ottewell. Read more. Tonight … Look for Sirius, sky’s brightest star Speaking of very bright objects … Out late at night or before dawn? Look for Sirius, a brilliant beauty of a star. You'll always know it's Sirius if you see Orion's Belt pointing to it. Hint: The planet Venus is much brighter than Sirius. Read more. While still in the womb, humans have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands Research involving a non-invasive scan of living human embryos shows that some muscles, thought to have been abandoned by our mammalian ancestors 250 million years ago, are still present before birth. They're among the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution yet seen in humans. Read more.

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Watch after sunrise for a daytime moon Stefanie Bush caught the moon just after full - in the midst of anticrepuscular rays - over Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, Florida. She caught this image with an iPhone X and wrote: "I found it to be really lovely." And so it is! Read more.

Big Dipper over Utah View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Marc Toso of the wonderful website AncientSkys.com captured this image in late September. He wrote: "This is an Ancestral Puebloan dwelling, hidden within the Bears Ears national monument on the edge of a cliff with a 600-foot [180-meter] drop. This dwelling was probably abandoned around 800 years ago and is gradually softening into the Earth from which it came." Thank you, Marc. Here's how to see the Big Dipper in autumn. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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