An eclipse, a meteor shower, and more
SkyCaramba
English - April 16, 2023 05:00 - 4 minutes - 3.75 MBAstronomy Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Hybrid solar eclipse
Next Episode: Virgo; Astronomy Day
Mercury sinks sunward. Uranus goes with it. Venus plows past the Pleiades. Mars in Gemini. A Saturn-moon pairing. Jupiter still too close to the sun to see.
A reminder about the hybrid solar eclipse.
And a comet that last came close to the sun in 1861 provides the annual meteor shower called the April Lyrids. The shower peaks at the end of this week.