Here’s The Best Time To See The Ursid Meteor Shower This Sunday

The Ursid meteor shower peaks on Sunday, Dec. 21, just after the solstice, with ideal viewing conditions and dark skies just ...

You can still see comet 3I/ATLAS in the night sky. Here’s how.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

What’s that in the sky? WTOP has the answers

We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can.
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The Sky This Week from November 14 to 21: The Leonid meteor shower peaks

The article provides guidance for observing multiple deep-sky objects, including open clusters M36, M37, and M38 in Auriga, and the dwarf planet 1 Ceres in Cetus, noting its proximity to the double ...
Astronomy

The Sky This Week from November 21 to 28: Uranus at opposition

**Planetary Observational Events:** Uranus reaches opposition on November 21st, positioned within Taurus and offering an optimal viewing period for its 4" disk near the Pleiades. A close conjunction ...
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The Sky This Week from November 14 to 21: The Leonid meteor shower peaks

Friday, November 14 Auriga the Charioteer rides high in the sky tonight, reaching an altitude of 70° above the eastern horizon by local midnight. Several bright deep-sky objects call Auriga home, such ...