EarthSky News - Oct 16 - Moon and Planets, Meteor Shower, Ringed Dwarf Planet

October 16 Moon and Planets, Meteor Shower, Ringed Dwarf Planet by:

Before dawn … Keep watching moon, Venus, Mars The best views of the moon and planets before dawn are happening now! Look for Orionid meteors this month Details on the annual Orionid meteor shower. How and when to watch. In 2017, the peak morning is probably October 21, but start watching now, before dawn. Egg-shaped Haumea has a ring Dwarf planet Haumea - which orbits our sun in Pluto's realm of the solar system - has become the first trans-Neptunian object known to be encircled by a ring. Intense storms batter Saturn moon Titan “I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that,” said a researcher. Instead, the storms on Titan happen about once a Saturn-year, creating massive floods in an otherwise-desert terrain.

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Before dawn … Keep watching moon, Venus, Mars Venus is some 200 times brighter than Mars. Click in for a diagram showing their relative positions in orbit around the sun right now.

Big Dipper over Horseshoe Spring, Utah The famous Big Dipper asterism, caught mirrored in Horseshoe Spring, one of many natural hot springs in Utah’s West Desert. Photo by Marc Toso of AncientSkys.com. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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EarthSky News - Oct 15 - Moon, Planets … Earth

October 15 Moon, Planets … Earth by:

Next few mornings … Moon, Venus, Mars Don't miss the moon's sweep past dazzling Venus and much fainter Mars, east before sunup. Secret Antarctic ice canyons revealed Ice shelves in Antarctica are like conveyor belts, continually carrying ice to the sea. Scientists have found hidden canyons on their undersides that may affect the shelves fragility. Tropical volcanoes trigger El Niños, says study A new study shows how large volcanic eruptions cool tropical Africa, spawning El Niños. Chasing the northern lights in Alberta A night sky timelapse by Jack Fusco featuring frozen lakes, fog inversions, and of course the northern lights!

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Next few mornings … Moon, Venus, Mars They'll be lovely to view, and you might get a sense of the moon in its orbit around Earth, moving, always, eastward or toward the sunrise direction in your sky.

Chasing the northern lights in Alberta A night sky timelapse by Jack Fusco. Jack wrote, “I got to timelapse something I had never seen in the past. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the pillar in the sky!” Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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