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In Space History
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Spirit rover begins exploring Mars
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Tonight's Viewing Conditions
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Sky Darkness
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Sunset
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Golden Hour
Pro tip: Give your eyes 20-30 minutes to adjust to the darkness. Avoid looking at your phone screen — or use a red filter app to preserve your night vision!
Tuesday, January 14, 2026
A Great Night for Stargazing
Waning Gibbous
97% illuminated
Tonight features Jupiter at its brightest following its recent opposition, dominating the eastern sky after sunset. The Moon (-- illuminated) affects sky darkness. Look for Venus low on the western horizon just after sunset, and Mars rising late in the evening.
Jupiter Dominates
The gas giant shines at magnitude -2.8, unmissable in the eastern sky all evening long.
Moon
-- illuminated. Great for lunar observation!
Sunset
Sunset at --. Golden hour starts at --.
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Seasonal Guide
Constellations Visible Tonight
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Orion
The Hunter
Easy to find
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Gemini
The Twins
Overhead
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Taurus
The Bull
High
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Ursa Major
Big Dipper
Northeast
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Leo
The Lion
Rising
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Canis Major
Sirius (brightest star)
South
January 14, 2026
Tonight's Sky Highlights
★★★★☆
Good Viewing
Waning Gibbous
Moon Phase
11:42 PM ↑
Moonrise
5:23 PM
Sunset
6:30 - 11:30 PM
Best Viewing
5
Planets Visible Tonight
♀ Venus
♂ Mars
♃ Jupiter
♄ Saturn
⛢ Uranus
Next 90 Days
Upcoming Celestial Events
Feb
6
Launch
Feb 6
Artemis II Launch
NASA's historic crewed mission to the Moon — the first lunar voyage with humans in over 50 years. Four astronauts will orbit the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.
Feb
17
Eclipse
Feb 17
Annular Solar Eclipse
A "ring of fire" eclipse visible from Antarctica. While challenging to reach, cruise ships may offer partial views from southern waters.
Mar
3
Eclipse
Mar 3
Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)
The Moon turns deep red as it passes through Earth's shadow. Best viewed from Asia, Australia, and western North America. Don't miss this stunning sight!
Apr
22
Meteor Shower
Apr 22
Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
Up to 18 meteors per hour radiating from the constellation Lyra. With a 27% Moon, conditions will be favorable for watching shooting stars!
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Planets Visible Tonight
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Mercury
Below horizon
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Venus
15° altitude
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Mars
32° altitude
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Jupiter
58° altitude
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Saturn
25° altitude
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Uranus
Below horizon
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Neptune
Below horizon
Moon Phase
Updated hourly🌔
Waxing Gibbous
78% illuminated
Moonrise
3:42 PM
Moonset
5:18 AM
Next Full Moon
Jan 25
Next New Moon
Feb 9
Sun Times
For your locationSunrise
7:15 AM
Golden Hour
5:12 PM
Sunset
5:42 PM
Astronomical Twilight
6:48 PM
Day length: 10h 27m
+1m from yesterday
Meteor Showers
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Current Activity
Low
No major meteor showers active right now.
Upcoming Showers
Lyrids
Apr 22
~18/hr
Eta Aquariids
May 6
~50/hr
Perseids
Aug 12
~100/hr
Upcoming Eclipses
2026Total Lunar Eclipse
March 3, 2026
Visible from Americas, Europe, Africa
Partial Solar Eclipse
March 17, 2026
Visible from Antarctica
Total Solar Eclipse
August 12, 2026
Visible from Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Spain
Partial Lunar Eclipse
August 28, 2026
Visible from Americas, Europe, Africa
Did You Know?
Amazing Space Facts
Our Sun
You could fit 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun. It makes up 99.86% of all mass in our solar system!
Solar Heat
The Sun's core is 27 million °F (15 million °C) — so hot that hydrogen atoms fuse into helium, releasing enormous energy.
Solar Wind
The Sun releases a solar wind that travels at 1 million mph, creating the beautiful auroras when it hits Earth's magnetic field.
Mind-Blowing Scale
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all Earth's beaches — about 200 billion trillion stars!
Star Birth
A new star is born in our galaxy roughly every 50 years. The Milky Way has been making stars for over 13 billion years!
Blue Giants
The hottest stars burn blue, not red! Blue supergiants can be 50,000°C — while red dwarfs are a "cool" 3,000°C.
Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon would weigh about 6 billion tons — as much as Mount Everest!
Saturn
Saturn would float in water if you could find a bathtub big enough — it's less dense than water!
Venus Time
A day on Venus is longer than its year! It takes 243 Earth days to rotate but only 225 days to orbit the Sun.
Jupiter's Storm
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a 400-year-old storm so large that Earth could fit inside it twice!
Diamond Rain
On Neptune and Uranus, diamonds literally rain from the sky due to extreme pressure converting methane to diamond!
Volcanic Moon
Jupiter's moon Io has over 400 active volcanoes — making it the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
Martian Giant
Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system — Olympus Mons stands 72,000 feet tall, nearly 3x Mount Everest!
Drifting Moon
The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth at about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) per year. In a billion years, it'll be too far for total eclipses!
Lunar Footprints
The footprints left by Apollo astronauts will remain on the Moon for millions of years — there's no wind or weather to erode them.
Tidal Lock
The Moon is tidally locked to Earth — that's why we always see the same side. The "dark side" isn't dark, just hidden!
Sunlight Travel
Sunlight takes 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach Earth. If the Sun vanished, we wouldn't know for 8 minutes!
Looking Back in Time
When you look at the Andromeda Galaxy, you're seeing light from 2.5 million years ago — true time travel!
Voyager Distance
Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away. A signal from it takes over 22 hours to reach Earth at light speed!
Black Holes
If you fell into a black hole, spaghettification would stretch you into a long thin strand due to extreme tidal forces!
Cosmic Collision
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide in 4.5 billion years. Don't worry though — stars are so far apart, direct collisions are rare!
Supernovae
A supernova explosion releases more energy in seconds than our Sun will produce in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime!
Magnetars
Magnetars have magnetic fields 1 quadrillion times stronger than Earth's — strong enough to erase your credit cards from the Moon!
ISS Speed
The International Space Station orbits at 17,500 mph — completing a full orbit every 90 minutes. Astronauts see 16 sunrises daily!
Space Growth
Astronauts grow up to 2 inches taller in space because their spines decompress without gravity. They shrink back on Earth!
Space Age
On Mercury, you'd have 4 birthdays per Earth year! A year there is just 88 Earth days. On Neptune, one year = 165 Earth years!
Dark Matter
85% of the universe is made of dark matter — we can't see it, but we know it exists from its gravitational effects!
Cosmic Void
The Boötes Void is a 330 million light-year empty region of space containing almost no galaxies — one of the universe's greatest mysteries.
Space Sound
Space isn't completely silent! Black holes emit ultra-low frequency sounds — a B-flat, 57 octaves below middle C!
Cosmic Recipe
The center of our galaxy smells like rum and tastes like raspberries — due to ethyl formate molecules floating in space!
Pale Blue Dot
From Saturn, Earth is just a tiny blue pixel. Voyager 1 photographed this "Pale Blue Dot" from 4 billion miles away in 1990.
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The next-generation infrared space telescope is scheduled for September 2026, promising new discoveries in cosmology and exoplanets.
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