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Bright Jupiter will draw your attention most of the night. It will be very obvious in the east at sunset and will be visible until a few hours before dawn. It will shine near the pretty Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus the Bull. Jupiter reached perihelion – or closest point to the Earth– in early November. And it reached opposition overnight on November 2-3, 2023, when we flew between it and the sun. So, as Jupiter recedes from Earth, it’ll fade a bit in our sky. It will lie in the dim constellation Aries the Ram. It will shine at -2.7 magnitude by month’s end. The waxing gibbous moon will float by Jupiter on December 22, 2023. Chart via EarthSky. December evenings: Saturn The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. [20] [21] The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, [22] which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis "month" [23] (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb "measure" (of time). [24] This work, painted about 1830, is the third variant of one of Friedrich’s most cited and reproduced paintings. In the first version, a rust-brown haze envelops sky and landscape, creating a nocturnal mood (1819, Dresden Gemäldegalerie; see Notes). In the second version, the two protagonists are a man and a woman, and the sky is changed to a rose-mauve dusk (ca. 1824, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; see Notes). Here, Friedrich retained the luminosity of the Berlin canvas yet reintroduced the two male figures found in the Dresden composition. Infrared photographs have established that Friedrich made no underdrawings, and his painting is so fluid that the forms appear less detailed than in the other two versions. Suffused with rose-mauve light, the present scene conveys the greatest sense of serenity. November 27 and 28, 2023, the bright waning gibbous moon will lie near a trio of bright stars. It’ll be near the fiery orange star Aldebaran of Taurus the Bull and Orion’s mighty red supergiant star Betelgeuse. The bright golden star is Capella of the constellation Auriga the Charioteer. You can follow them until sunrise. Chart via EarthSky. With the different positions of the Moon, different areas of it are illuminated by the Sun. This illumination of different lunar areas, as viewed from Earth, produces the different lunar phases during the synodic month. A phase is equal to the area of the visible lunar sphere that is illuminated by the Sun. This area or degree of illumination is given by ( 1 − cos ⁡ e ) / 2 = sin 2 ⁡ ( e / 2 ) {\displaystyle (1-\cos e)/2=\sin

Our charts are mostly set for the northern half of Earth. To see a precise view – and time – from your location, try Stellarium Online. December 22-23 mornings: Ursid meteor shower

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The English adjective pertaining to the Moon is "lunar", derived from the Latin word for the Moon, lūna. Selenian / s ə l iː n i ə n/ [28] is an adjective used to describe the Moon as a world, rather than as a celestial object, [29] but its use is rare. It is derived from σελήνη selēnē, the Greek word for the Moon, and its cognate selenic was originally a rare synonym [30] but now nearly always refers to the chemical element selenium. [31] The element name selenium and the prefix seleno- (as in selenography, the study of the physical features of the Moon) come from this Greek word. [32] [33] On Earth, our view of the illuminated part of the Moon changes each night, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, or path, around Earth. When we have a full view of the completely illuminated side of the Moon, that phase is known as a full moon. The semi-major axis of the geocentric lunar orbit, called the Lunar distance, is approximately 400,000km (250,000 miles or 1.28 light-seconds), comparable to going around Earth 9.5 times. [166] For many, the Natural History Museum is a place that inspires learning, gives purpose and provides hope. People tell us they 'still get shivers walking through the front door', and thank us for inspiring the next generation of scientists. To reverse the damage we've done and protect the future, we need the knowledge that comes from scientific discovery. Understanding and protecting life on our planet is the greatest scientific challenge of our age. And you can help. On the final morning of the month, November 30, 2023, Venus will reach its closest approach – or will have a close conjunction– to the star Spica. Spica is the brightest star in Virgo the Maiden. They’ll be a little over 4 degrees apart on the sky’s dome, or roughly the width of 8 full moons lined up side-by-side. Chart via EarthSky. December 1 morning: Moon near Castor, Pollux and Procyon

While the giant-impact theory explains many lines of evidence, some questions are still unresolved, most of which involve the Moon's composition. [56] Models that have the Moon acquiring a significant amount of the proto-earth are more difficult to reconcile with geochemical data for the isotopes of zirconium, oxygen, silicon, and other elements. [57] Above a high resolution threshold for simulations, [ clarify] a study published in 2022 finds that giant impacts can immediately place a satellite with similar mass and iron content to the Moon into orbit far outside Earth's Roche limit. Even satellites that initially pass within the Roche limit can reliably and predictably survive, by being partially stripped and then torqued onto wider, stable orbits. [58] On the evenings of November 29 and 30, 2023, the waning gibbous moon will pass Castor and Pollux, the twin stars of Gemini. They’ll rise a few hours after sunset and be visible traveling across the sky all night. Chart via EarthSky. November 30 morning: Venus and Spica conjunctionOur charts are mostly set for the northern half of Earth. To see a precise view – and time – from your location, try Stellarium Online. December 17 morning: Venus will pair up with Zubenelgenubi Ionizing radiation from cosmic rays, the Sun and the resulting neutron radiation [99] produce radiation levels on average of 1.369 millisieverts per day during lunar daytime, [14] which is about 2.6 times more than on the International Space Station with 0.53 millisieverts per day at about 400km above Earth in orbit, 5-10 times more than during a trans-Atlantic flight, 200 times more than on Earth's surface. [100] For further comparison radiation on a flight to Mars is about 1.84 millisieverts per day and on Mars on average 0.64 millisieverts per day, with some locations on Mars possibly having levels as low as 0.342 millisieverts per day. [101] [102]