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what's up for february jupiter at sunset

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saturn at midnight and cosmic couples

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hello and welcome i'm jane houston jones

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at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in

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pasadena california this is the last

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month to spot jupiter in the evening

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skies until next fall

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try to get one more look especially at

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the southern equatorial belt

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which seemed to disappear last year

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and has just begun to re-emerge

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the crescent moon below

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next to and above jupiter

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on the sixth it's right next to jupiter

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on the 20th late in the evening the

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waning gibbous moon forms a pretty

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triangle with saturn and virgo's

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brilliant white stars spica

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on the next night these three objects

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form a straight line

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finally on february 28th in the morning

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sky before dawn the moon snuggles up

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comet hardly 2 the comet that nasa's

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deep impact epoxy spacecraft flew by in

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november is visible in the sky through

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march

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you'll need a telescope to find it near

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the open cluster m50 in the

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constellation monocerous but it's worth

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hunting down

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on valentine's day february 14th the

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repurposed stardust next spacecraft

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flies by comet temple 1.

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this comet was previously visited by

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saturn shines in the late evening at the

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beginning of the month but your best

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views of the ring planet this month will

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be after midnight when it's highest in

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the sky

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through telescopes look for the newly

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observed storm on saturn's northern

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hemisphere

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asteroids the first four discovered

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ceres palace juno and vesta all make

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appearances in our sky later this year

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ceres was the first asteroid to be

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discovered and one of the first objects

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to be reclassified as a dwarf planet

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nasa's dawn spacecraft visits vesta

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later this year and will reach ceres in

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2015.

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also this month look for asteroid nicer

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in the constellation leo

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you can learn more about asteroid and

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comet classroom activities at

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yss which stands for year of the solar

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system

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and you can learn all about nasa

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missions at www.nasa