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Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

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By Kristine Sabillo A badger glancing at a gun-wielding graffiti version of itself has won the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Stargazers can witness a rare planetary parade on January 21 and 25, with Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn visible to the naked eye after sunset. Uranus and Neptune need a telescope for clear ...

These planetary hangouts happen when several planets appear to align in the night sky at once. “They’re not in a straight line, but they’re pretty close together on one side of the sun ...

North Texans are in for a celestial treat: This month and until late February, six planets in our solar system will be in alignment in the night sky. A planetary alignment, or as it’s known ...

check out our night-sky guide to Winter 2024-2025. (The thumbnail image for this article was created using a combination of the Stellarium free planetarium software, along with images of Uranus ...

In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total six planets will be visible, four of them to the naked eye - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.VIDEO ...