NASA Skywatching Tips February 2025
Last Updated on February 3, 2025 by Cass County Communication Network
Here are a few links and some info shared by our local Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller:
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/whats-up-february-2025-skywatching-tips-from-nasa
Credits: NASA, JPL, Preston Dyches
All Month – Planet Visibility:
· Mercury: Pops up just above the horizon in late February, looking relatively bright as sunset fades
· Venus: Looking brilliant in the west after sunset all month
· Mars: Bright and amber-orange colored, high in the east each evening. It’s the last planet to set in the west a couple of hours before sunrise
· Jupiter: Find the giant planet high overhead in the evening, looking very bright
· Saturn: Somewhat faint, but visible low in the west for the first hour after sunset; increasingly lower as the month goes on
Heart Shaped Antennae Galaxies Astronomy Picture of the Day Feb. 7, 2024
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240207.html
Credits: APOD, NASA, Image Credit & Copyright: Kent E. Biggs