planets

Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! Special events On July 13, the full moon will take place while the moon is at perigee, the point of the moon’s orbit when it is at…

Astrophotographer Wright Dobbs took this image of five bright planets visible lined up with the moon from St. Cloud, Florida before dawn on June 24, 2022. The planets are (from left): Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the…

The early bird catches the spectacular skywatching this week, as five planets march across the predawn sky. This rare planetary alignment has been visible since early June. But the view should be particularly impressive this week, as…

A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Credit: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided…

Amateur astronomers are preparing for a heavenly treat from Friday as the five planets visible to the naked eye line up in order of their distance from the sun across the pre-dawn sky.For those who can face the early start, and have an…

Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! Hokupa‘a, also known as Polaris or the North Star: We gaze at it and use it as a tool for navigation across the world, but what do we…

Move over, Gustav Holst. There’s a new Planets in town. And this one is based on astronomy, not astrology. Holst’s seven-movement orchestral suite The Planets premiered in London in 1918. Now, a little…

Is our Solar System comparable to other solar systems? What do other systems look like? We know from exoplanet studies that many other systems have hot Jupiters, massive gas giants that orbit extremely close to their stars. Is that…

Planets outside of our Solar System are rather dull things. So dull, we can only see them directly by sifting out a scattering of reflected rays amid the glare of their parent star. Even then, the best we can manage is a pinprick to…

I have being doing astronomy for a long, long time, and I still think one of the coolest things we can do now is see stars literally forming, coalescing from disks of gas and dust around them. Even cooler than that,…