Watch for These Top 5 Sky Events of 2015: Eclipses, Comets, and Planets
Lunar eclipses and the innermost planets will take center stage in the heavens.
Stay tuned, stargazers—the year ahead offers many heavenly delights, including a pair of lunar disappearing acts and a potentially surprising comet.
While scores of amazing astronomical phenomena are in the offing, here are our picks for sky-watching events worth circling on your calendar for 2015:
The new year brings two chances to witness the simplest and most widely shared of sky shows—a total lunar eclipse. First, in the predawn hours of Saturday, April 4, the Earth's dark shadow will blanket the lunar disk as our planet moves between the sun and the moon.
Totality, or total coverage of the moon, begins at 12:00 a.m. GMT (5:00 a.m. PDT). The entire event will be visible from the South Pacific, Alaska, eastern Australia, and Japan.
