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December skywatching: See the Geminids, a moon-Jupiter conjunction and Comet 3I/ATLAS
To see the pair together, look up to the Moon in the eastern sky on December 7, and Jupiter will be just above and to the right. With the calendar turning to the final month of 2025, there are a number of skywatching events to look forward to ahead of Christmas!
THE United Nations has officially confirmed the Earth’s planetary defences will be tested by the bizarre 31/ATLAS comet that conspiracy theorists are convinced is an alien spacecraft. Today
May 28 (UPI) --China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 3B Y110 rocket lifted off toward the ...
To catch the Geminids peak, look to the eastern sky all evening on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The meteors will appear near the bright planet Jupiter. With the darkest possible skies, you could see up to 120 Geminid meteors per hour!
Track the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, catch the peak of the spectacular 120-per-hour Geminid meteor shower (Dec 13/14), and see the Moon-Jupiter conjunction (Dec 7).
As the 2025 year draws to a close, the December night skies offer a promising but dazzling cosmic trio surprise for the sky watchers and astronomers. The sky watchers can experience the
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This year, the internet has taken great interest in 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object ever detected, though also the third since 2017. (The overwhelming scientific consensus suggests 3I/ATLAS is a comet, though one rogue astrophysicist has sparked endless online speculation by suggesting it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft.)
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