On December 8, 2022, Mars will reach its opposition to the Sun in the constellation Taurus. It will then be exactly opposite the Sun in the sky and come particularly close to Earth. Around 81.5 million kilometers separate us...
November is a month of meteors and shooting stars. During a meteor shower, fragments of a comet, the meteorites, enter the near-Earth atmosphere and burn up as shooting stars. On November 1st, the moon shows its...
Object of the week_2022-44 A long night of the planets This time there are five objects at once, as all five outer planets are currently visible in the night sky. It starts, at dusk, with the ...
Meteorite impact on Mars In January, scientists noticed that the InSight probe (a stationary seismic measurement lander launched in 2018) had registered numerous tremors at the end of December 2021.The months-long analysis by the team from NASA and...