Comet ZTF, which I’ll call “The Green Monster,” is coming soon to a sky near you. This is its first return since the Ice Age, so if you miss it now, you’ll have to wait another 50,000 years to see it again. In the US, you might spot it before dawn on Saturday, Jan … Read more
This collection shows 99 planetary nebulae (and “Gomez’s Hamburger,” a protoplanetary disk) imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Copyright Hubble / ESA / NASA; processed by Judy Schmidt CC BY 2.0
Catch the first full Moon of 2023 this weekend, January 6-8. It goes by many different traditional names–the Wolf Moon, the Cold Moon, the Hard Moon, the Great Moon, the Spirit Moon. Here’s a new favorite, though: the Stay Home Moon.
Hope you’ll enjoy it, wherever you are.
