Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice.
Bright blue light in the night sky.
Starlink satellites seen after the first launch in may 2019.
Unlike stars they generally don t twinkle as they have an apparent diameter large enough that the effect of turbulence in the earth s atmosphere averages out.
Last night a mysterious light lit up the skies over california leaving people as far east as louisiana perplexed.
If you ve looked up at the night sky recently you might have been surprised to see a train of bright lights moving.
Jupiter and venus can both be strikingly bright.
What was that weird blue glow in the sky.
At that time the blue tinted planet will be 4 light hours or 28 9 astronomical units from earth it will shine at a slightly brighter magnitude 7 8 and will be visible all night long in good.
Planets will appear to move across the sky as the earth turns keeping their position with respect to the surrounding stars.