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StarDate Radio: June 3 — Hale Telescope

Giant new telescopes pop up like mushrooms these days — there’s another one every year or two. And even bigger...More »

Stargazing: June 2

The Moon will be full tomorrow night. It’s the Flower Moon, Rose Moon, or Strawberry Moon. But it also can...More »

StarDate Radio: June 2 — Short Moon

The Moon will be full tomorrow night. It’s the Flower Moon, Rose Moon, or Strawberry Moon. But it can also...More »

StarDate Radio: June 1 — Mars and the Beehive

Mars and Venus will pass near a star cluster with many aliases this month. It’s probably best known as the...More »

Stargazing: June 1

The planet Mars will pass directly across M44, the Beehive Cluster, over the next couple of nights. They are a...More »

Stargazing: May 31

The Moon is passing through the constellation Virgo tonight, with its leading light, Spica, close to the Moon’s upper right....More »

StarDate Radio: May 31 — Sombrero Galaxy

The Sombrero Galaxy has taught us a lot. It provided important details about the birth, scale, and evolution of the...More »

Stargazing: May 30

The Moon stands near the middle of the largest member of the zodiac tonight, the constellation Virgo. Spica, its brightest...More »

StarDate Radio: May 30 — Moon and Spica

The Moon stands near the middle of the largest member of the zodiac tonight, the constellation Virgo. Spica, the maiden’s...More »

StarDate Radio: May 29 — Moving Mars

Mars is moving at a leisurely pace — slower than at any other time during its almost two-year orbit around...More »

Stargazing: May 29

Mars is a third of the way up the western sky at sunset and looks like a fairly bright orange...More »

Stargazing: May 28

The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the pyramids of Giza, was aligned with the help of Thuban, the...More »

StarDate Radio: May 28 — Cosmic Pyramid

Archaeologists recently released pictures of a hidden chamber inside the pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the Great Pyramids of...More »

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Going deep into the dark universe, digging gardens on the Moon and Mars

2023 Sky Almanac

This year marks the golden anniversary of StarDate magazine, so we’re celebrating by describing the progress and discoveries of the past 50 years of astronomy, along with some tidbits about our own history.

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