Why should we care about the new findings - released this week - from NASA's Parker Solar Probe? This new NASA video explains the solar wind - a stream of charged particles from the sun - affects earthly astronauts and technologies. Watch the video.
In the west after sunset, Venus will climb upward day by day, until Venus and Saturn meet for a conjunction on December 10. In the east before sunrise, Mercury may already have dropped into the sun's glare, but Mars will remain for many weeks to come, slowly but surely brightening. Read more.
The year’s earliest sunsets happen around December 7 for latitudes around 40 degrees N. That includes New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kansas City, Missouri; Denver, Colorado; Reno, Nevada; Beijing, China; Madrid, Spain; and Naples, Italy. Southern Hemisphere? For 40 degrees south latitude, the year’s earliest sunrises happen around December 7, as you progress toward your year’s longest day at the December solstice. Read more.
