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what's up for January

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planets have some close encounters the

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bright stars of winter and a chance to

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catch a comet all month after Sunset you

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can see four planets without the aid of

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binoculars or a telescope you'll find

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Mars in the East Jupiter High overhead

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and Saturn in the southwest with Venus

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January 2nd finds the moon and Mars high

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in the Southeast after sunset in a

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lovely grouping with the Pleiades and

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aldebaran then from about January 18th

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to the 24th watch Venus cross paths with

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Saturn as the glow of sunset Fades look

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for the pair low in the southwest about

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45 minutes after the sun dips below the

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Horizon the two planets appear their

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closest on January 22nd when they'll be

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only a third of a degree apart on the

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sky you'll be able to capture both of

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them in the same field of view through

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binoculars or a small telescope on the

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23rd the two planets are still only a

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degree apart and will be joined by a

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slim crescent moon and on January 25th

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looking to the Southwest 30 to 45

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minutes after Sunset look high above

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Venus and Saturn to find the moon only a

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degree apart from Jupiter about halfway

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up the sky

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January nights are filled with bright

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stars looking toward the South or

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Southeast in the first few hours after

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dark you'll spy the bright

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constellations of winter in the northern

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hemisphere

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of course there's Orion the hunter the

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big dog constellation Canis Major and

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the lesser-known little dog canis minor

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with its bright star procyon and

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y-shaped Taurus the Bull includes the

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bright hyadis and Pleiades star clusters

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and just ease the Orion you'll find the

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bright stars Castor and Pollux which

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form the heads of the twins in Gemini

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make sure you take a moment to

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appreciate the beauty of the January Sky

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which more than meets the definition of

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star-studded with so much to Marvel at

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recently discovered comet is now passing

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through the inner solar system and

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should be visible with a telescope and

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likely with binoculars the Comet which

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has a mouthful of a name c

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2022e3 ztf was first cited in March last

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year when it was already inside the

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orbit of Jupiter it makes its closest

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approach to the sun on January 12th and

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then passes its closest to Earth on

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February 2nd

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comets are notoriously unpredictable but

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if this one continues its current Trend

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in brightness it'll be easy to spot with

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binoculars and it's just possible it

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could become visible to the unaided eye

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under Dark Skies observers in the

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northern hemisphere will find the

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comment in the morning sky as it moves

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swiftly toward the Northwest during

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January it'll become visible in the

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southern hemisphere in early February

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this Comet isn't expected to be quite

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the spectacle of the Comet neowise was

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back in 2020 but it's still an awesome

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opportunity to make a personal

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connection with an icy visitor from the

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distant outer solar system

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here are the phases of the moon for

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stay up to date with all of NASA's

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missions to explore the solar system and

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Beyond at nasa.gov I'm Preston Dykes