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Here's your Cosmic Pursuits newsletter for December 2023!
1. Jupiter and Saturn linger in the evening sky while Venus remains as the brilliant 'Morning Star'. A lucky few might see the star Betelgeuse 'wink out' for a few seconds. And the moon stays out of the way for the spectacular Geminid meteor shower this year. Here's what to see in the Night Sky This Month...
2. In a new series at Cosmic Pursuits, we look at an image of an immense dark nebula along a rich part of the Northern Milky Way. Here, the galaxy does its work of recycling old stars into new ones and along the Orion Arm. Read the article here.
3. The first images from the new Euclid space telescope are rolling in and they are spectacular.
4. The film maker Erik Wernquist
has finally made another short video, this one of what life might look like on an immense resort-like space station. Truly stunning. As was his previous space video on exploring the solar system with Carl Sagan providing the voice
over.
5. Astronomers just announced the discovery of a solar system with six
planets in synchronized orbits. Nature is full of surprises.
And the astronomy quote of the month...
“ What good is the warm of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck
See you next year!
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Brian Ventrudo
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