Astronomy News 3 July 2025

The Best Telescopes of 2025: What the Pros Are Using and What You Should Buy

The Celestron NexStar 8SE is a 203 mm Schmidt-Cassegrain with a GoTo computerized fork mount and f/10 optics, delivering bright, detailed views but at a high price for beginners. The Sky-Watcher 8-inch Dobsonian is a 203 mm reflector on a

10 August 2025

Astronomy

Spectacular Venus–Jupiter “Cosmic Kiss” Dazzles Early Morning Skies (Don’t Miss It!)

The Venus–Jupiter conjunction occurs August 11–13, 2025, with its closest approach on August 12 at about 0.86° apart. Venus will shine around magnitude -4.0 and Jupiter around -1.8 to -2 during the pairing. The pair sits about 35° from the

10 August 2025

Astronomy

Full Moons 2025–2026: Supermoons, Blood Moons & Cultural Celebrations You Can’t Miss

Sept. 7, 2025 – Corn Moon full moon coincides with a total lunar eclipse (Blood Moon) visible in Asia, Africa, and Australia. Oct. 6–7, 2025 – Harvest Moon is a near-perigee supermoon, peaking around 11:48 PM EDT, with the Mid-Autumn

10 August 2025

Astronomy

December 2025’s Dazzling Cold Moon – A Final Supermoon Lighting Up the Long Winter Night

The December 4, 2025 full Moon, known as the Cold Moon, peaks at 23:15 UTC (6:15 p.m. EST; 3:15 p.m. PST in Los Angeles). This full Moon is a supermoon, about 7–8% larger in apparent size and roughly 15% brighter

10 August 2025

Astronomy·Night Sky

Blasting Off: The Ultimate Guide to Every Upcoming Rocket Launch Worldwide 🌎🚀

Aug 4, 2025: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-34 launches from Site One, West Texas, on a suborbital tourism flight carrying a private crew of six, Blue Origin’s 14th crewed mission. Aug 4, 2025: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 10-30 from

2 August 2025

Astronomy·Rocket Launches·Space

The Telescope Revolution of 2025–2026: From Backyard Stargazing to Giant Cosmic Eyes

Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory, introduced in 2024 and shipping through 2025, uses a 6-inch Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph (RASA) at f/2.2 with an integrated 8.3-megapixel Sony STARVIS IMX178 color sensor, has no eyepiece, a fully motorized one-arm alt-azimuth mount with

31 July 2025

Astronomy·Space·Stargazing·Technology

December 2025 Skywatch Alerts: Geminids Meteor Storm, Rare Planetary Sights & Auroras Galore

The Geminid meteor shower peaks overnight on December 13–14, 2025, with as many as 100–150 meteors per hour under dark skies, originating from asteroid 3200 Phaethon. The Ursid meteor shower peaks around December 21–22, 2025, near 11:00 UTC, typically producing

30 July 2025

Astronomy·Meteor Showers

Don’t Miss These Skywatch Wonders in October 2025

The Draconid meteor shower peaks around October 8, 2025, but a full Moon on October 6–7 will wash out most meteors, making outbursts of hundreds to thousands per hour unlikely, and its parent comet is 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. The Orionids peak on

30 July 2025

Astronomy·Meteor Showers·Skywatching

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

Europe launched its first geostationary atmospheric sounding satellite, MTG-S1, as part of the Meteosat Third Generation program, equipped with a hyperspectral infrared sounder and Copernicus Sentinel-4 for air-quality monitoring, with a 9–12 month commissioning phase. Russia’s Kosmos-2558 approached the U.S.

3 July 2025

Astronomy·Space·Space News·Technology

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