Kelly Kizer Whitt

1 week ago | earthsky.org | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Spaceflight Watch Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. The launch window will open at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Monday, April 14. An international pop star and former host of the popular television series American Idol, Katy Perry, will be among the all-female crew due to launch April 14, 2025. It’ll be Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. The mission, NS-31, is set to be a historic one. It’ll be the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963.

2 weeks ago | earthsky.org | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Space Your support = more science, more stars, more wonder. Donate to EarthSky and be part of something bigger. A mere 150 light-years distant, two white dwarf stars are in a dance of death. Researchers at the University of Warwick in the U.K. said on April 4, 2025, that they’ve spotted two stars on a collision course, and the resulting supernova would be brighter than 10 full moons in our sky. White dwarfs are the depleted but superdense remains of stars like our sun.

2 weeks ago | earthsky.org | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Human World The night sky over the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile is said to be the darkest and clearest over any astronomical observatory in the world. Astronomical data gathered under these pristine skies let astronomers present the first image of an exoplanet, and confirm the accelerated expansion of the universe. But now, according to ESO, a new industrial megaproject is threatening the observatory’s dark skies.

3 weeks ago | wiscnews.com | Kelly Kizer Whitt

The lineup of planets that has dominated the evening sky for the last few months comes to a close in April as some of the planets, including the brightest planet – Venus – enter the morning sky. Venus will be a bright light above the eastern horizon before sunrise, acting as our “Morning Star.”Venus will be especially picturesque in the morning sky in the second half of April. On the morning of April 25, watch Venus rise before dawn followed by a whisper of a crescent moon.

3 weeks ago | earthsky.org | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Today's Image On March 29, 2025, a partial solar eclipse was visible to observers in northeastern North America, Greenland, Iceland, the north Atlantic Ocean, most of Europe and northwestern Russia. Did you miss it? You can still see its majesty in the fabulous photos shared by our EarthSky global community. Did you capture a great pic of your own?