Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  May 31: Blue Moon, red star Mercury is at its best for the year. It’s now easy to spot in the evening sky, already 10° above the western horizon 30 minutes after the Sun sets. Tonight, it shines at magnitude –0.5 andContinue reading "The Sky Today on Monday, June 1: Mercury at its best"

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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  May 30: Fly a cosmic kite Full Moon occurs at 4:45 A.M. EDT on May 31, bringing us May’s second Full Moon and the first — and only — Blue Moon of 2026. Shortly after that, at 5 A.M. EDT, the FullContinue reading "The Sky Today on Sunday, May 31: Blue Moon, red star"

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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  May 29: Split Nu Draconis Already high in the eastern sky an hour after sunset is the constellation Boötes the Herdsman. Easy to find thanks to its brightest star, the magnitude –0.1 red giant Arcturus, the stars of this constellation form aContinue reading "The Sky Today on Saturday, May 30: Fly a cosmic kite"

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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  May 28: Scorpius holds M80 High in the northeast this evening, located within the head of Draco the Dragon, is one of the sky’s most famous and easy-to-split double stars. Nu (ν) Draconis appears to shine as a single 4th-magnitude star toContinue reading "The Sky Today on Friday, May 29: Split Nu Draconis"

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