This Week’s Night Sky: Watch a ‘Lite’ Lunar Eclipse
Look for the moon to darken a smidge as it moves through Earth's shadow, and hunt for a comet passing by a spiral galaxy.
The two super-bright objects will appear quite close—only two degrees apart, a little more than the width of your thumb held at arm’s length.
Try your hand at viewing Jupiter and its four largest moons, which are lined up on either side of the giant planet. Jupiter is so large that it could easily swallow over 1200 Earth-sized worlds.
Earlier this month a new study was released suggesting that in the early part of of the solar system’s history, a baby Jupiter may have traveled through the inner solar system and swallowed up much of the primordial, planet-building material. This could explain why planets close to the sun—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—are all on the small side.
Hungry Jupiter may have swept
