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Venus, Jupiter to put on rare spectacle

The planets Venus and Jupiter will align on Monday and Tuesday night, appearing just 3 degrees apart in the western sky.
Biggest solar storm in years now bombarding Earth (+video)

The two huge solar flares that erupted on the sun on Tuesday have produced a wave of charged particles that are now glancing off our planet's magnetic field.
Two powerful 'X-class' flares erupt on sun (+video)

The sun unleashed two extremely powerful flares Tuesday. NASA tentatively says that particles from the solar storms are probably heading in Earth's direction, but will likely deliver a glancing blow at most.
Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, and moon to put on rare spectacle in sky

This past weekend, three planets joined the moon in a rare alignment. On Monday, these celestial bodies will be joined by Mercury.
Harvest moon on fall equinox won't be seen again until 2029

Harvest moon: Not since 1991 has a full moon occurred on the same night as the fall equinox, and it won't happen again until 2029, wrote astronomer Tony Phillips in a NASA announcement.
Horizons
Leonid meteor shower... Yawn, is it time yet?

The Leonid meteor shower gets underway at 3:30am
Horizons
Meteor shower tonight! Orionid meteor shower begins at 1 am

Meteor shower tonight? Yep, peak viewing times for the Orionid meteor shower begins tonight (er... tomorrow) at 1 am.
Discoveries
Look for comet Lulin -- it won't be back for a million years

The pros are turning major amounts of telescope glass on comet Lulin; the rest of us can see it through binoculars