Skywatching Calendar April 01 to June 30 2020

The Morien Institute - The events of December 16th to 22nd 1994, when the remnants of a fragmenting comet, P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, bombarded the surface of Jupiter causing fireballs many times the size of our own planet, were an abrupt wake-up call even for those who were aware of them. The historical sciences generally, and arch�ology in particular, have collectively painted a picture of the past as if our planet stands alone in empty space. Nothing could be further from reality. Our resilient planet exists in a solar system that has experienced a very dynamic history over the past 20 to 30 millennia, and it is only from this wider solar system perspective that the true history of human civilisation will ever be fully understood. The Morien Institute archive therefore contains relevant material from many disciplines.

an image of a meteor flashing through the sky

Image of a revolving globe showing current sea levels since the end of the last ice age, before which many ancient societies like Atlantis flourished all over planet Earth on the continental shelves that were inundated by the rising sea levels caused by the melting ice sheets.


Skywatching Calendar April 01 to June 30 2020



text translation service for many worldwide languages

 


January – March 2020 |
July – September 2020 |
October – December 2020


 



For Your Safety When Daytime Skywatching Please Visit These Websites:


Safe SunWatching |
Observing Eclipses Safely |
Safely Viewing Sunspots

Safety In Sight |
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory



Useful Websites for Skywatchers:



Theodore von K�rm�n Lecture Series



Space Weather Radio



NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive 1996 to present



Ant�nio Cidad�o’s Practical Advice for Astrophotography & CCD Imaging



Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy Website debunks astro-nonsense



How do I translate Universal Time into my time?



As of May 26 2020

according to Near-Earth asteroid monitoring groups there were
2037



KNOWN Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

in Earth-crossing orbits


Why Does This Number Go Up, Then Sometimes Go Down?


Book an Educational Visit to the UK SpaceGuard Centre


The National Near Earth Objects Information Centre

is located in Knighton, Powys, LD7 1LW, Wales, United Kingdom

It is open for Public Tours (suitable for ages 9+), and also for

School Tours (suitable for primary & secondary schools)


They are are easily accessible – See Map and directions



Impact Craters on Earth, our Moon

and the other planets in our Solar System



NASA JPL Asteroid Watch

 


The 3,600 year-old Nebra Sky Disc



The Nebra Sky Disc


Made of bronze, with gold decorations of the Sun, Moon and Pleiades

click the image to find out more

 

 



Free Open Source Planetarium

For Your Computer


– Enjoy –

 

 


 Today is

Thursday, February 23, 2023 

 


SpaceWeather Information & Resources


Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm


What is Heliophysics
|

NASA Living With a Star


NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
|

The Australian Space Weather Agency


Space Weather Radio
|

ESA Space Environment Information System


Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


Realtime Comet Photo Gallery


a solar wind image link to the australian spaceweather agency home page


Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,

the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate

the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

 


April 2020 Celestial Events & Space Research News


April 2020 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until April 1st

The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date

It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT


April 2020 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..


BBC The Sky at Night – April 2020


Meteorite Times Magazine – April 2020
usually up online the middle of the month


Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools


Which stars were you REALLY born under? – Find your ASTRONOMICAL STAR SIGN


At the start of April 2020 the Sunspot Number is 12

 


April 01 2020 – 11:21 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


April 01 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“What NASA is doing to keep COVID-19 off the space station”


“Why Have Parts of Mercury’s Landscape ‘Deflated’?”


“Astronaut urine could help us build Moon bases � seriously”
Hmmm …


April 02 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2019 GM1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)


“An Eclipse Globe for the 21st Century”


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 02 – April 09”


“Mapping Out the Water on the Moon”


April 03 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 GH encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 6 metres

Mercury
Passes 1.4° From
Neptuneas seen from Earth with a suitable telescope

Venus
Passes 0.3° From
The Pleiadesas seen from Earth


“Sunrise CubeSats Will Study Giant Solar Storms”


“How does astronomy affect your day-to-day life?”


April 04 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 FC35 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)


“Astronomers are hoping to see the very first stars and galaxies in the Universe”


April 05 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 GM encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 18 metres


“SpaceX Will be Flying Cargo to the Moon”


April 06 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 GB1 encounter – miss distance 1.1 LD, size = 15 metres


“Is the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Breaking Up?”


“A black hole creates a cosmic ray gun”

 


April 07 2020 – 18:08 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 356,909 km) m

 


April 07 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“COVID-19 forces Earth’s largest telescopes to close”


“Oh No! Comet ATLAS Is Fragmenting”

 


April 08 2020 – 03:35 UT


Full Pink Moon

(SuperMoon)

 


April 08 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Mars Autumnal Equinox


Asteroid 2020 GF1 encounter – miss distance 1.5 LD, size = 20 metres


Comet 210P/Christensen


Perihelion (0.528 AU)


April 09 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 09 – April 16”


“How bad is light pollution in your community? You can help find out.”


“A Farewell to Orion”


“NASA�s Plans For a Lunar Base Camp


April 10 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 2019 HM Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)


“Earth’s best telescopes have closed, but the hunt for dangerous asteroids continues”


April 11 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 363599 (2004 FG11) Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)


“Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the Moon and asteroids”


April 12 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 GF2 encounter – miss distance 2.4 LD, size = 23 metres


Asteroid 2020 GV2 encounter – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 15 metres


April 13 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Cosmic visitor �Oumuamua may have been ripped from an alien world”


“When Comets Break Up, the Fragments Can Be Devastating If They Hit the Earth”

 


April 14 2020 – 23:56 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

 


April 14 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Astronomers Detect One of the Most Luminous Supernovae Ever”


“Comet Y4 ATLAS Breaks Up�Enter Comet F8 SWAN”


April 15 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 GH2 encounter – miss distance 0.9 LD, size = 17 metres


“New images of the Sun reveal thin threads of million-degree plasma”


“Shadow-casting with Venus”


“New Comet Alert! Quartet of Comets Grace Our Skies”


April 16 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 16 – April 23”


“Vast Magnetic ‘Strings’ Puzzle Astronomers”


April 17 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Meet Dubhe, Giant of the Big Dipper”


April 18 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HF encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 33 metres

“Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet found hiding in Kepler data”


“Betelgeuse Is Bright Again”


April 19 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Watch for Lyrid meteors this week


Lyrid meteor shower best before dawn


Asteroid 2020 HV encounter – miss distance 1.1 LD, size = 6 metres


Asteroid 2020 GZ2 encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 9 metres


 


April 20 2020 – 19:01 UT


Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 406,463 km)

 


April 20 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HU3 encounter – miss distance 3.3 LD, size = 23 metres


“Catching the Peak of the 2020 April Lyrids”


April 21 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Lyrids meteor shower April 21-22, 2020
visible overnight til dawn tomorrow


“Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Formed in a Very Cold Environment”


“The Origins of Interstellar Objects”


April 22 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Lyrids Meteor Shower History of Parent Comet


Lyrids Meteor Shower SkyMap


Asteroid 2020 HF5 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 16 metres


“Hubble watches a suspected exoplanet disappear before its very eyes”


“Chase a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid As It Flies by Earth”

 


April 23 2020 – 03:27 UT

New Moon

 


April 23 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


2020 Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak


Asteroid 2020 HO5 encounter – miss distance 2.5 LD, size = 7 metres


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 23 – April 30”


“Did Pluto Harbor an Ancient Subsurface Ocean?”


April 24 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HX3 encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 13 metres


“New, Incredibly Detailed Geologic Map of the Moon”


“Why are Venus� clouds so weird?”


“Celebrating 30 Years: The Universe Through Hubble’s Eye”


April 25 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


April 26 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HT8 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 8 metres


Asteroid 2020 HW6 encounter – miss distance 2.2 LD, size = 22 metres


Asteroid 2020 HN3 encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 4 metres


“What are gravitational waves?”


April 27 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HP6 encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 9 metres


Asteroid 2020 HT7 encounter – miss distance 1.9 LD, size = 15 metres


April 28 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HS7 encounter – miss distance 0.1 LD, size = 5 metres


“Voyager: What�s next for NASA’s interstellar probes?”


April 29 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Amor Asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)


Asteroid 2020 HJ6 encounter – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 17 metres


Asteroid 2020 HK6 encounter – miss distance 3.1 LD, size = 11 metres


“How Hubble opened our eyes to the universe’s first galaxies”


“Terrible Luck. The Only Person Ever Killed by a Meteorite � Back in 1888”


“Hubble captures dramatic images of comet flying apart”

 


April 30 2020 – 21:38 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


April 30 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 30 – May 07”


“Explore Solar System Worlds with NASA�s Image Archives”


“How Lazy Is the Sun?”

 


SpaceWeather Information & Resources


Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm


What is Heliophysics
|

NASA Living With a Star


NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
|

The Australian Space Weather Agency


Space Weather Radio
|

ESA Space Environment Information System


Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


Realtime Comet Photo Gallery


a solar wind image link to the australian spaceweather agency home page


Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,

the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate

the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

 

 


May 2020 Celestial Events & Space Research News


May 2020 SkyMaps & Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL May 1st


The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date

It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT


May 2020 –

SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..


BBC The Sky at Night – May 2020


Meteorite Times Magazine – May 2020
usually up online the middle of the month


Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools


At the start of May 2020 the Sunspot Number is 35


May 01 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“May 2020: Venus & Mercury at Dusk”


“The Sun is less active than other solar-like stars”


“Comet C/2020 F8 (Swan) is brightrening rapidly….. “
light curve of Comet Swan


“Hubble captures breakup of Comet ATLAS”


May 02 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HD10 encounter – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 13 metres


May 03 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


May 04 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 JJ encounter – miss distance 0 LD, size = 4 metres


“Could There Be Life Under a Hydrogen Sky?”


May 05 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak


Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower SkyMap


Eta-Aquariid meteor shower observing prospects


Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower in 2020


Asteroid 2020 JN encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 12 metres


“The importance of The Geography of the Heavens”

 


May 06 2020 – 03:03 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 359,656 km)

 


May 06 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


n�Aquarid meteor shower


Asteroid 2020 HL6 encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 10 metres


“Comet SWAN Expected to Put on a Splendid Show”

 


May 07 2020 – 11:45 UT


Full Flower Moon

(SuperMoon)

 


May 07 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2016 HP6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 438908 (2009 XO) Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)


Comet P/2003 T12 (SOHO)


Perihelion (0.596 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 07 – May 14”


“Astronomy reviews Canon’s new astrocamera”


“Ryugu May Have Skirted Close to the Sun”


May 08 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“A Cool Idea to Catch Up With an Interstellar Visitor”


“When Did Mars Lose its Global Magnetic Field?”


May 09 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 HC6 encounter – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 31 metres


“Space Force is Recruiting, Here�s their New Video”
WTF?


May 10 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Would you be able to tell the difference between a rock and a meteorite?”


May 11 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Reprocessed Images of Europa Make It Even More Interesting and Mysterious”


May 12 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2000 KA Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)


“A meteorite killed a man in Iraq in 1888, historic records suggest”


May 13 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Sediments on Mars, Created By Blowing Wind or Flowing Water”

 


May 14 2020 – 15:03 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

 


May 14 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 14 – May 21”


“Medieval ‘Dark Eclipse’ Helps Date Ice Cores and Time Volcanic Eruptions”


“Astronomers Continue to Analyze Pluto�s Atmosphere”


May 15 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 478784 (2012 UV136) Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)


Asteroid 2020 JF1 encounter – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 13 metres


“Space rocks may have killed the dinosaurs, but they helped create life on Earth too”


“Earth Life Probably Can�t Spread to Mars Today”


May 16 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 JN1 encounter – miss distance 1.1 LD, size = 6 metres


May 17 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


May 18 2020 – 07:45 UT


Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 405,584 km)

 


May 18 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 JE2 encounter – miss distance 2.2 LD, size = 10 metres


“2 asteroids to approach Earth on Monday, one of them Bigger than Statue of Liberty”


May 19 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 KA encounter – miss distance 2 LD, size = 12 metres


“See Comet 2020 F8 (SWAN) gracing UK skies tonight!”


May 20 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


May 21 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 136795 (1997 BQ) Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 21 – May 28”


“Here�s your chance to spot Mercury, as it cosies up to Venus this weekend”

 


May 22 2020 – 18:39 UT

New Moon

 


May 22 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mercury
Passes 0.9° From
Venusas seen from Earth


Asteroid 2020 JY1 encounter – miss distance 3.1 LD, size = 31 metres


“Pluto�s strange atmosphere just collapsed”


“OSIRIS-REx Will Collect a Sample from Bennu on October 20th”


“Comet SWAN’s Final Song”


May 23 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


May 24 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)


Closest Approach To Earth (0.781 AU)


May 25 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Towel Day – Annual Tribute to Douglas Adams


Asteroid 2020 KV6 encounter – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 25 metres


May 26 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


As of today there are 2037 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA)


May 27 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


May 28 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 KJ4 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 4 metres


Asteroid 2020 KF5 encounter – miss distance 0.6 LD, size = 5 metres


Asteroid 2020 KM4 encounter – miss distance 2.4 LD, size = 9 metres


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 28 – June 04”


“Death from above: 7 unlucky tales of people killed by meteorites”


“Jupiter Has Trapped a Comet in a Bizarre Orbit”


May 29 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 KC5 encounter – miss distance 1 LD, size = 12 metres


Asteroid 2020 KO4 encounter – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 14 metres


“Mars Doesn�t Have Much of a Magnetosphere, But Here�s a Map”


“Maybe the Elusive Planet 9 Doesn�t Exist After All”

 


May 30 2020 – 04:30 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


May 30 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


May 31 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)


Perihelion (0.253 AU)

 


SpaceWeather Information & Resources


Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm


What is Heliophysics
|

NASA Living With a Star


NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
|

The Australian Space Weather Agency


Space Weather Radio
|

ESA Space Environment Information System


Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


Realtime Comet Photo Gallery


a solar wind image link to the australian spaceweather agency home page


Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,

the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate

the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

 

 


June 2020 Celestial Events & Space Research News


June 2020 SkyMaps & Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL June 1st


The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date

It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT


June 2020 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..


BBC The Sky at Night – June 2020


Meteorite Times Magazine – June 2020
usually up online the middle of the month


Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools


At the start of June 2020 the Sunspot Number is 0


June 01 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“What to watch for in the night sky during Summer 2020”


“Earth-sized planet found orbiting the nearest star”


June 02 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Are We Watching a Planet Disintegrate?”


“Ancient Mars may have once had rings, then moons, then rings �”


“Galaxies Are Even Bigger Than You Think”


“The Meteor Impact that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Created a Vast Underground Hydrothermal System”

 


June 03 2020 – 03:36 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 364,366 km)

 


June 03 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“What are the Odds of Life Emerging on Another Planet?”


“The history and future of telescopes on the Moon”


“The dinosaur killing asteroid hit the Earth at the most devastating possible angle”


June 04 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Mercury
– At Its Greatest Eastern

Elongation (24°)
as seen from Earth


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 04 – June 11”


“Half the matter in the cosmos was missing, but astronomers found it”


“Spying a Rare �Ring of Fire� Around Venus at Inferior Conjunction”


“Evidence that Mars Used to Have a Ring”

 


June 05 2020 – 20:12 UT


Full Strawberry Moon

 


June 05 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2020 Jun 05
visible from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia


Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of Friday Jun 05 2020
visibility map


“Interstellar Oumuamua Was a Dark Hydrogen Iceberg”


June 06 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)


“China will begin constructing its space station in 2021”


June 07 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Daylight Meteors: The Arietids Peak”


June 08 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 KZ3 encounter – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 20 metres


Comet 249P/LINEAR


Closest Approach To Earth (0.429 AU)


June 09 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2013 XA22 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2013 EC20


Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)


“How ‘Mars Undergound’ sparked a return to the Red Planet”


June 10 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


June 11 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 11 – June 18”


“Titan is Drifting Away from Saturn Surprisingly Quickly”


June 12 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mars
Passes 1.7° From
Neptuneas seen from Earth with a suitable telescope


“Watch the Moon Pair Up with Venus on June 19th”


“A 2nd Planet has been Confirmed for Proxima Centauri”

 


June 13 2020 – 07:24 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

 


June 13 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 KB3 encounter – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 37 metres


June 14 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day

 


June 15 2020 – 00:56 UT


Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 404,597 km)

 


June 15 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Inside the quest to use cosmic explosions as distance markers”


“Space Dust Delivered Water to Vesta, Could it Have Done the Same for Earth?”


June 16 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Meteorites from Mars contain clues about the Red Planet’s geology”


“Astronomers Discover Huge Circular Arc Near the Big Dipper”


June 17 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Searching for the End of the Universe�s ‘Dark Age'”


June 18 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 18 – June 25”


“Watch the Moon Pair Up with Venus on June 19th”


June 19 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 2018 PD22 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2101 Adonis


Closest Approach To Earth (0.368 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2102 Tantalus


Closest Approach To Earth (0.483 AU)


“Astronomers Estimate There Are 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in the Milky Way”


“Who switched off the Milky Way?


“Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village

 


June 20 2020 – 21:44 UT


Alban Hefyn

Summer Solstice

 


June 20 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 20 – June 27”


“The world’s first astronomical site was built in Africa and is older than Stonehenge”


“Planets With Large Oceans are Probably Common in the Milky Way”

 


June 21 2020 – 07:42 UT

New Moon

 


June 21 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Annular Solar Eclipse of 2020 Jun 21


Annular solar eclipse


“It’s the winter solstice but what does that mean for our seasons?”


June 22 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


June 23 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Pluto may have an ocean under its surface due to heat from early impacts”


“Exploring Links Between Nearby Asteroids”


June 24 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 441987 (2010 NY65) Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)


June 25 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 MP1 encounter – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 22 metres


Apollo Asteroid 2017 FW128 Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 25 – July 02”


“If we find life on Mars, what might it be like?”


June 26 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet 2P/Encke


Perihelion (0.337 AU)


“Do We Now Understand Why the Moon�s Near and Far Sides Look So Different?”


“Learning to Live Sustainably on the Red Planet: Habitat Mars”


June 27 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 MF1 encounter – miss distance 1.3 LD, size = 10 metres


“A Simulation of Sunsets on Other Worlds: From Venus to Titan”

 


June 28 2020 – 09:16 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


June 28 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 ME1 encounter – miss distance 2 LD, size = 20 metres


June 29 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2020 JX1 encounter – miss distance 3.3 LD, size = 62 metres


Comet 249P/LINEAR


Perihelion (0.497 AU)


Comet C/2019 U6 (Lemmon)


Closest Approach To Earth (0.827 AU)

 


June 30 2020 – 02:09 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 368,958 km) M

 


June 30 2020 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


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October – December 2020


 



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