The Sky This Week from January 5 to 12: Visitors to the Scorpion

Friday, January 5The mighty ringed planet Saturn remains a fixture in the southwestern sky after sunset, shining at magnitude 0.9. You’ll find it still 30° high an hour after sunset, to the upper right of a relatively bright star that sits about half as high above the horizon — that’s Fomalhaut, the magnitude 1.2 alphaContinue reading “The Sky This Week from January 5 to 12: Visitors to the Scorpion”
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