Why Was the Moon Orange Last Night? Here s Why It Can Change Colour Newsweek 1 day ago Ed Browne © Gary Hershorn/Corbis/Getty A supermoon rises over New York as people watch from the Eagle Rock Reservation in South Orange, New Jersey August 10, 2014. The Moon can appear orange for a number of reasons, including its angle in the sky.
Twitter has lit up with reports from around the U.S. and U.K. that the moon appeared orange or pink on Thursday night.
It is unclear exactly how widely the phenomenon was reported. Users reported the sight in various states across the U.S. including Louisiana, Illinois and Indiana.
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Watch the winter solstice Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn with these webcasts Space 12/21/2020 Samantha Mathewson © Provided by Space Saturn, top, and Jupiter as seen on Dec. 13, 2020, a week before their closest approach, when the two planets may appear as a single point of light.
Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky today (Dec. 21) in an event astronomers call the great conjunction, and you can watch it online with webcasts from The Virtual Telescope Project, Slooh and more.
Tonight s great conjunction also nicknamed the Christmas Star marks the closest apparent encounter of Jupiter and Saturn in nearly 400 years. The two planets will be closest to each other in the sky tonight, which is also winter solstice, and may be viewed as one point of light, appearing only a tenth of a degree apart. They will remain in close alignment for a few days and will be easily visible to the naked eye when looking toward the southwest just a
Watch Live tonight! More amazing webcasts for the winter solstice great conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn Space 21/12/2020
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Above is a winter solstice great conjunction webcast from the Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy, which begins at
10:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT)
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Jupiter and Saturn will shine together in a winter solstice Great Conjunction of 2020 in what many are likening to an early Christmas Star tonight (Dec. 21) and you can watch it live online here in a series of webcasts.
The two planets will appear close to each other in the night sky about every 20 years, but they re conjunction in 2020 on Dec. 21 is the closest they ve appeared since 1623. Even in that pairing, the conjunction wasn t visible to much of Earth. You have to go back 800 years to when the sight was last widely visible around the world.