Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a parade of planets in the post-sunset sky.
It's not especially remarkable for a few planets to line up in the sky, but the sight of four or five brilliant planets at once is less common, according to NASA. How does the ali ...
By Salil Gewali Metaphorically speaking, while Copernicus and Galileo were just beginning to play marbles in the playground of the solar system, Indian sages, many millennia earlier, were already ...
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The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...