Here's your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow moments

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Here's your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow moments

by Marcia Dunn
22 hours ago
(January 01,2025)


A supermoon rises behind an observation deck in New York City as seen from Hoboken, N.J., Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don't expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring.

While the world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse, the cosmos promises plenty of other wow moments in 2025. It's kicking off the year with a six-planet parade in January that will be visible for weeks. Little Mercury will join the crowd for a seven-planet lineup in February.

Five planets already are scattered across the sky—all but Mars and Mercury—though binoculars or telescopes are needed to spot some of them just after sunset.

"People should go out and see them sometime during the next many weeks. I certainly will," said the Planetary Society's chief scientist Bruce Betts.

Here's a sneak peek of what's ahead:

Eclipses

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are visible over Lake Washington, in Renton, Wash., on Friday evening, May 10, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File

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https://phys.org/news/2025-01-night-sky-celestial-wow-moments.html

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