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Jupiter's an eye-magnet this month plus there's a possible binocular comet and several minor meteor showers to look forward to. Check out our night-sky calendar for more events.
Gas giant planets rule the evening sky. Saturn and Neptune start the planetary show about an hour after sunset. Look to the south-southeast to spot a modestly bright star. That’s
Watch Venus and Mars play tag with each other in the constellation of Leo the lion throughout the month.
"That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me... I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back." -C. JoyBell C.
More like this Here's what I don't understand. So the comet's path was altered by Jupiter's gravity in 2012. I get that. But Jupiter would only be able to affect a small piece of the debris field's elliptical orbit, as very little of that debris field would have been in close proximity at the time of the comet's pass. So, while I can understand how Earth might pass close enough to the comet's new orbit, I fail to see how that has any bearing on Earth's first encounter with the debris field left behind from previous centuries. By Mike Dicker (not verified) on 21 May 2014 #permalink