Magic Half News Today

The Queen attended a literacy event at a 20th century house in East Sussex, greeting schoolchildren and meeting famous authors.

Hello everyone! With all the wonders of the Magic Half Hour in the evening sky, we haven’t talked much about the early morning sky, but you might want to go

Greetings everyone! Since you’ll no longer be able to see all the glories of the Magic Half Hour by the end of the month, I thought that since we found

Greetings everyone! Now that the excitement of the solar eclipse is over, it’s time to revel in the astounding night skies you can see during the Magic Half Hour. You’ve

Greetings everyone and welcome to the most amazing skies on Earth. From Guam, in April and May, there’s a half-hour period each evening when you can see eight of the

Greetings everyone and welcome to the most amazing skies on Earth. From Guam, in April and May, there’s a half-hour period each evening when you can see eight of the

Greetings everyone and welcome to some of the most astounding skies on the planet. In spring here on Guam, you can see eight of the 10 brightest stars, 15 of

Greetings everyone and welcome to the best star-gazing month on the planet! Why is that? Because from your own backyard here on Guam you can see eight of the 10

But you don’t have to wait a long time to see the Magic Half Hour again. It happens every year in April and May. What does change is the planets you can see and this year, you can see all five planets. Two of them, Jupiter and Saturn, are in the early morning sky and the other three are in your Magic Half Hour evening sky. Just watch the sun set this week and as it begins to grow dark, look for two bright stars above the position of the setting sun. The lower one will be very bright, and it i...

If you live in Alaska or Norway or Greenland, you see the northern half of the sky and the Earth hides the southern half from you. You can never see Crux the Southern Cross or Canopus, the second brightest star. If you live in Australia or New Zealand or southern Chile, you can never see Polaris the North Star or the Big Dipper. But if you live at the equator, the entire sky is visible to you throughout the year as the Earth spins beneath it. Here on Guam, we’re 13 degrees north of the equato...