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Image Credit: Stellarium Astronomy Software
Amazing sight to be seen in the night sky on December 21. It’s been almost 400 years since Jupiter and Saturn were this close. The separation this time around will only be a tenth of a degree. If you have binoculars or a telescope make sure you look up in the southwest direction in early evenings on and around December 21.
China will open their Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to foreign scientists in 2021.
Biggest radio telescope in the world located in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwest China is set to open its doors to scientists around the world. “Our scientific committee aims to make FAST increasingly open to the international community,” said Wang Qiming, chief inspector of FAST’s operations and development.
Image Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope
Astronomers spotted a strange dark storm movement on Neptune. Images from Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the storm first spotted in 2018 is not following the usual pattern as it made a U-turn and is moving back northwards.