SkyCaramba

Mercury's moving into the evening sky. The other planets are still merry in the morning. And in case you wondered about eclipses seemingly occurring at regular intervals, you're right.

Mercury went through superior conjunction recently. Now it's emerging in the evening sky.

A lover's crown goes over our heads on July evenings. The old stories tell of a woman hurt by a lover who left her and a god who wanted to be her rebound.

Not a lot of astronomy guides use it, but some astronomers like the galactic coordinate system.

And try to see some Delta Aquariid meteors.

A well reputed newspaper published a scathing editorial putting down the founder of rocket science for his idea that a rocket can be controlled in space and even made to land on the moon. The paper said anybody with a high school education should know better. The newspaper eventually published a retraction, but not before people were actually on their way to the moon.

The moon moves through the evening sky this week, while most of the planets are still visible in the morning. Over the next few weeks, you can see Saturn's shadow move from one side of its rings to the other. And there's a way to describe just how non-circular an object's orbit is.

Mercury's on the way out of the morning meeting of planets.

Three of the moon's orbital points come together this week.

And Earth is farthest away from the sun.

A southern star is known as the loneliest star, although it's well liked by navigators who perform their craft with sextants.

And an arrow flies overhead, but it doesn't come from the constellation known as the archer.

The naked eye planets are in order in the morning sky. Uranus and Neptune break the order, but they're there too. And get ready for the solstice.

The naked eye planets are in order in the morning sky. Mercury moves in a little farther.

Antares is the heart of the scorpion.

The naked eye planets in our morning lineup can be seen in the same order in the sky that they are in distance from the sun.

Old stories tell of the dolphin among the constellations and the animal's service to other beings, including a human in trouble.

About two centuries ago, two never previously known star names showed up in a published star catalog. The person who named them took the secret of their origins to his grave. But the names are accepted today and the mystery is solved. Listen to find out more.