Dr. Sky

With the clear skies that accompany this time of year, get set to see one of the most spectacular objects in all the night sky. The great Orion Nebula is coming into view.

As Arizona weather becomes the envy of the nation, we get to experience two important meteor showers in November: the Taurids and Leonids.

The Discovery Channel Telescope in Happy Jack, Arizona, is one of a large group of telescopes which are all part of the great Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff.

Look to the northeastern sky during any clear October evening around 10 p.m. and you will be able to view one of the most amazing cluster of stars: Pleiades. 

A new and exciting mission known as the Orbital Reflector, the brainchild of author and artist Trevor Paglen, will soon launch a special type of satellite for the entire world to see.

With the Hubble Space Telescope having many systems in place to keep it going, we now find out that it was placed into “safe mode” as a number of the vital gyroscopes on board have failed.

With recent searches of what lies beyond Pluto, astronomers have now detected a small planet some 200 miles in diameter which lies about 7.9 billion miles from the Sun.

A Japanese spacecraft known as Hayabusa 2 deployed two small rovers on an asteroid known as Ryugu.

This Andromeda Galaxy is actually visible to the naked eye from the darkest of skies this time of year and may appear as a little smudge of light.

A periodic comet known as Comet 21P/Giacobini- Zinner made its closest pass by Earth in about 72 years earlier this week.