Hello ! Jupiter and Saturn linger in the evening sky while Venus and Mercury make an appearance in the evening and morning sky. The 'Halloween Fireballs' flash across the sky as the month begins. And the Sun is waking up and generating more auroral activity as it sends highly energetic charged particles that light up the Earth's upper atmosphere. Here are your astronomical highlights for November 2021!

 

1. First, here's your monthly guide to the Night Sky This Month.

 

2. Of the three thousand stars visible on any clear night, and the hundreds of thousands more visible in even the smallest telescope, this star is my favourite.

 

3. Bob King examines the prospects for the incoming Comet Leonard which may be the brightest comet of the year.

 

4. Astronomers find first hints of a planet located outside our own galaxy.

 

5. William Shatner goes to space. (The most extraordinary thing about this video is the soft landing of the booster rocket. An amazing display of advanced rocketry and control systems at work.)

 

6. A giant and likely disastrous solar flare will happen one day, and we are completely unprepared.

 

7. A review of the new Celestron NexStar Evolution 6" telescope.

 

8. Trevor Jones takes the new William Optics RedCat 71 out for a test run.

 

9. Astronomers help archaeologists discover that Vikings lived in North America exactly 1,000 years ago.

 

10. Carl Sagan speaks of humility in the face of a very large cosmos.

 

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Clear Skies!

 

Brian Ventrudo

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