They are too faint to see without a large telescope, but their positions in the sky are near the Pleiades star cluster. You'll find the Pleiades star cluster leading the constellations Taurus the bull and the hunter Orion, followed by the brightest star in the sky, Sirius — all of them back to keep us company on the long winter nights here in the Northern Hemisphere.
And for those in the Southern Hemisphere, they're keeping you company on shorter nights as spring gives way to summer there. A fun note about the Pleiades this month is that several of the 8 asteroids to be visited by NASA's Lucy mission are located in that part of the sky. The Lucy spacecraft launched on Oct. They share the orbit of Jupiter, with a group of them leading the planet, and another group following behind it.
Lucy will be the first space mission to explore this unique group of asteroids, providing new insights about the formation and early history of our solar system. Support Our Science. Utility Menu News Events. Share this Page. Facebook Share on Facebook. Twitter Share on Twitter. Landing rockets is a difficult and dangerous task, so if you can make sure there are no people around when it happens, all the better. The crew capsule at the top of the New Shepard is designed to detach and land separately under parachutes as the now uncrewed booster stage lands using its engine.
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The Space Launch System launch vehicle for the Artemis 1 mission is finally fully assembled. This mission will carry an uncrewed Orion capsule to the Moon in February as a test flight for future human missions. SpaceX conducted a static fire of Starship. Tests like these are vital for validating the hardware before attempting a launch and orbital flight. A Russian film crew paid a short visit to the ISS to record footage for a movie.
Three Chinese astronauts were launched on a six month mission to the Tiangong Space Station. The Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
By itself a fairly standard launch for Arianespace, this mission is significant because it reaffirms the reliability of the Ariane 5 for its next lift off. Hopefully launching 18 December, it will be loaded with probably the most important payload it will ever carry, the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Phases of the Moon. New Moon November 5. First Quarter November Full Moon November The map also shows the phases of the Moon, and all solar and lunar eclipses. Need some help? Mercury is just 8 degrees from the Sun in the sky, so it is difficult to see. Venus can best be seen in the hours just after sunset.
Visibility improves as the sunlight fades. Venus is visible by day, but may be hard to find. Mars is just 12 degrees from the Sun in the sky, so it is difficult to see. Saturn can best be seen in the hours just after sunset. Uranus is roughly in the opposite direction of the Sun, so it is visible during most of the night. You may need binoculars. Very faint, use binoculars. See how far the planets are from the Sun or Earth, how bright they look, and their apparent size in the sky.
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