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The first full moon of 2025 is called the Wolf Moon. It's also a supermoon, set to appear in night skies Jan. 13, and will pass in front of Mars during a phenomenon known as occultation.
(From Cincinnati, for instance, Mars will be blocked by the moon from about 9:06 p.m.-10:17 p.m.) March 13-14: Total lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse is coming in March 2025.
On Jan. 13, a lunar occultation of Mars will be visible in the U.S. A lunar occultation occurs when the moon passes in front of a star or planet and blocks its light for about an hour before ...
Triple conjunction Mars–Jupiter 2761 Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn: 2781 December 3 At 06:04 UTC, Venus will occult Neptune. [42] 2791 Triple conjunction Mars–Jupiter 2794 / 2795 Triple conjunction Jupiter–Saturn 2800-99 Fragments A+B of Comet Ikeya-Seki (with orbital periods of around 800–950 years) are expected to return. It last ...
A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Friday, March 14, 2025, [1] with an umbral magnitude of 1.1804. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow.
In astronomy, planetary transits and occultations occur when a planet passes in front of another object, as seen by an observer.The occulted object may be a distant star, but in rare cases it may be another planet, in which case the event is called a mutual planetary occultation or mutual planetary transit, depending on the relative apparent diameters of the objects.
From planetary meet-ups to the first total lunar eclipse in three years, here are the top astronomy events to look for throughout 2025: Stellar views of Mars will greet stargazers in January as ...
Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander will carry NASA-sponsored experiments and commercial payloads as a part of Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to Mare Crisium. [2] Landing is expected on 2 March 2025. [3] The Hakuto-R Mission 2 will carry the RESILIENCE lunar lander and the TENACIOUS micro rover. [4]