Here's a rundown of sky-gazing events to bookmark for November 2023, including the Leonid meteor shower.
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We call them shooting stars, but it's actually meteors that create dazzling streaks of light across our night sky. conditions across most of the U.S., and November offers a bevy of options this month to enjoy looking up at the night sky. A NASA spacecraft got closer to Jupiter and its moon than ever before and captured some images.
"Opposition occurs when the Sun, Earth and planet lie along a straight line with the Earth in the middle,"astronomer Dr. Larry Wasserman said in a blog post. "Thus putting the Sun and planet on opposite sides of the Earth, hence the term ‘opposition.’ This means that the planet is as close to the Earth as possible and will appear as big and as bright as it can ever get. This is a great time to take a look and discover Jupiter in opposition for yourself.
Jupiter will be bright and easiest to spot until mid-December. With a bit of help from a telescope, you can spot Jupiter's most famous weather feature:Every year, between November and December, Earth passes through debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, resulting in the Leonid meteor shower. Peak activity happens on Nov. 18 when up to 15 meteors per hour could be visible, moving up to 44 miles per second.
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