Episode 39: May 2013
It's a great month for eclipses, both lunar and solar!
It's a great month for eclipses, both lunar and solar!
A partial lunar eclipse will darken the Moon for Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Saturn rises by midnight; use a telescope to spy its rings.
Look for red giant star Betelgeuse in Orion's shoulder.
Binoculars can transform the Pleiades star cluster from seven stars into a swarm.
Meteors dart away from the constellation Gemini.
Saturn and Venus cozy up late in the month.
The Andromeda Galaxy will someday consume its companion.
Algedi's odd shape is a visual trick.
Two full moons appear in the same month.
Scorpius is easy to trace in the sky.
Venus performs its last transit of the century.
A solar eclipse darkens the skies.
Four planets dance together.
The constellations of spring appear.
Saturn flaunts its many rings.
Long, cold nights are lit by the Quadrantid meteor shower.
A lunar eclipse stains the Moon red.
Go fishing for Pisces in the southern sky.
The Andromeda Galaxy shows off its spiral arms.