The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus.

The largest moon in the solar system ... world from both the ground and the sky. In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped by the gas giant, taking tens of thousands of pictures as ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. “We choose to ... haven’t even been back to the Moon since 1972, but crewed missions to gas giant moons like Titan ...

Additionally, on the 9th the Moon crosses the Pleiades (M45), and ... standing just under 4° west of the gas giant on the 14th and coming closest on the 17th, when only 2.2° separates them.

The significance of the first full moon of the year World News ... where we will be able to see several of the gas giants in the sky, being able to observe Jupiter and Saturn with the naked ...