ebruary 2025 is a phenomenal continuation of January’s planetary-ness! You’ll get chances to see all the planets before going to bed and a conjunction of Mercury & Saturn.nd a brief but intense meteor shower shows up.
Happy New Year! Today we have @CheapAstro investigates our expanding universe, as well as some dead planets.
Today we have Cheap Astronomy tries colonising the Solar System. If we did what would we do with the different planets?
From baby planets to ancient black holes, let’s look at the week’s space news.
Get out under the stars in December of 2024 to see ALL THE PLANETS! Especially on Christmas night. Plus a bunch of close encounters between the Moon and those planets, and the annual Geminid meteor shower.
The formation of rocky worlds from dust particles containing ice & carbon, increasing the possibility of Milky Way filled with aquatic planets
How did Pluto get demoted? What makes a planet a planet anyway? Why do we now have so many different kinds of planets, and should we make things simpler?
In November Saturn and Jupiter are the steady highlights above, Venus shines brilliantly before dawn, and rocks fall from the sky.
The next big milestone for exoplanets is a telescope that can see beyond beyond the frontiers of our knowledge: The Roman Space Telescope
Things that orbit the Sun and clear their orbits. So what happens when worlds collide? Why is Mars’ sky red?