India’s next total lunar eclipse falls on New Year’s Eve 2028. Its next total solar eclipse arrives in 2034, close to sunset, and only the far north gets it.
The half Moon sets around midnight, the radiant climbs high, and the predicted peak lands in the last dark hour before dawn. Here is when to look from your city, and an honest estimate of what you will see.
This evening only Saturn is up. The real gathering is before sunrise, when Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury share the sky. By February, Jupiter and Mars move into the evening at their brightest of the season.
November’s full moon rises around sunset across India on Kartik Purnima. By one common definition it is a supermoon and by another it just misses. We measured both, and the December full moon that beats it.
One of the century’s longest total eclipses crosses Egypt that afternoon. India sees only a partial eclipse, deepest at the southern tip and missing entirely in the far north-east. We calculated what each city gets.
Jupiter’s moon Europa probably holds about twice as much liquid water as all of Earth’s oceans. Juno has now measured the ice above it, and Europa Clipper arrives in 2030 to ask whether that ocean could support life.
Astronomers can now measure the gases around a planet 124 light-years away. The rise and fall of the claims about K2-18b show what that technique can do, and how easily it can be over-read.
Earth’s nearest neighbor absorbs less sunlight than Earth does, yet its surface is hot enough to melt lead. Understanding how that happened is one of the most practical questions in planetary science.
