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Feb 10, 2017

Look To Tonight’s Sky For A Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse, And Green-Glowing Comet

Slooh, a public online observatory, will be livestream the eclipse and comet for all to see.

Sep 28, 2015

Photos: Despite Clouds, Supermoon Eclipse Shows Its Face (Or Lack Thereof)

Local photographers got some great shots.

Oct 08, 2014

Photos: The Morning Blood Moon Came For Our Souls

Photos of this morning’s Blood Moon over D.C.

Oct 07, 2014

Sacrifice Yourself—And Your Sleep—To Blood Moon Tomorrow Morning

Wake up early tomorrow morning to catch Blood Moon!

Apr 14, 2014

Sorry, You Won’t Be Able To See Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse In D.C.

But you’ll be able to watch it via a NASA live stream!

Oct 18, 2013

Here’s When To See Tonight’s Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

You’ll have to look carefully to notice, but there will be a lunar eclipse tonight.

Dec 21, 2010

Photo Booth: Total Lunar Eclipse

Happy Winter Solstice! Check out all the photographers who stayed up most of the night and braved the freezing cold to get a shot of last night’s total lunar eclipse. On behalf of those of us who try to get folks excited about science and astronomy, it was almost more fun to watch Twitter last night and see the sheer number of people who went outside for a glimpse of the last one of these we’ll see until 2014.

Dec 20, 2010

Look Up: Total Lunar Eclipse, Winter Solstice Tonight

We wrote about it last Monday, but wanted to remind you that tonight’s sky will feature a total lunar eclipse – the last one we’ll see until 2014.

Dec 13, 2010

Look Up: What’s in the Sky This Week?

A clear sky is welcome news, as the best meteor shower of the year, the Geminids, peaks tonight. You won’t even have to stay up extraordinarily late for these beauties: the ‘shooting stars’ will be visible from around 11 p.m., with as many as 120 streaking through the sky per hour. If you can’t weather the cold, watch NASA’s radar capturing the fireballs all night.

Jun 19, 2010

Look Up: What’s in the Sky This Week?

Photo of the Summer Triangle by philliefan99 Look Up has discussed the Summer Triangle a couple of times before. The asterism (a pattern of stars that are not an official constellation) rises at dusk, just in time for the solstice on Monday, the time when the Northern Hemisphere tilts closest to the Sun, the longest day of the year, and, yes, the real first day of summer. Click through to philliefan99’s photo above to…

 
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