Stargazing
Stargazing and skywatching from Cosmic Herald — what to see in the night sky, meteor showers, planets, auroras, and observing guides.
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Stargazing
Dark Skies and a Faint Shower: What to Watch in September's Night Sky
A new-moon dark sky, the faint September Lyncids meteor shower, and NASA's guide to Venus, the Teapot asterism, and a Harvest Moon beside Saturn and Neptune highlight the second half of September 2026's stargazing calendar.
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Stargazing
Six-Hour Warning: Asteroid 2026 RW1 Becomes the 13th Impactor Ever Spotted Before It Hit
A city-bus-sized asteroid was spotted over Arizona just six hours before it burned up over the Indian Ocean—becoming only the 13th impactor ever caught in advance, and the first on an orbit inside Earth's own.
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This Week's Sky: Moon Meets Jupiter, Venus Nears Its Peak
The Moon paired with Jupiter before dawn on Sept. 8, and NASA's September guide lines up the Sagittarius Teapot, peak Venus brightness on Sept. 18, and a Saturn-Neptune Harvest Moon on Sept. 26.
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A Convoy of Solar Storms Is Pushing Auroras Deep Into Mid-Latitudes This Week
NOAA issued a G1-G2 geomagnetic storm watch after sunspot AR4524 fired off four CMEs in two days, and skywatchers from Chicago to Edinburgh — and possibly New York and London — could catch aurora through September 9.
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NOAA Issues G1 Storm Watch as a Queue of CMEs Bears Down on Earth
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G1-Minor geomagnetic storm watch for September 8-9 as multiple CMEs and a coronal-hole stream converge on Earth, with aurora possible across the northern U.S. and forecast confidence still low.
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This Week's Dawn Sky: The Crescent Moon Walks From Mars to Jupiter as a CME Nudges the Aurora
Four mornings, Sept. 6-9: a thinning crescent Moon slides past Mars in Gemini, then Jupiter in Cancer, while a C9-flare CME due Sept. 8 puts a "maybe" on high-latitude aurora ahead of the Sept. 11 new Moon.
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A Minor Radiation Storm and an Inbound CME Set Up a Weekend Aurora Watch
NOAA logged repeated S1-minor proton storm alerts on September 5 as a coronal mass ejection from sunspot AR4524 heads for Earth, with arrival expected September 8 and a shot at G1-level auroras.
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Stargazing
NASA's September Skywatching Guide: Venus, the Teapot, and a Harvest Moon
NASA's September 2026 sky guide runs from a modest meteor shower and a string of Moon conjunctions to Venus's peak brilliance, the fall equinox, and a Harvest Moon sharing the evening with Saturn and Neptune.
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September Sky: The Moon Crashes the Pleiades, Then Blots Out Jupiter
A waning gibbous Moon slides past the Pleiades this week, sets up a close pass with Jupiter on Sept. 6, then briefly occults the giant planet on Sept. 8 for skywatchers in Canada, the contiguous U.S., Greenland and Russia.
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September's Sky: A Harvest Moon, Venus at Its Brightest, and the Equinox Arrives Right on Schedule
September 2026 stacks a Moon-Jupiter pairing, Venus's brightest night of the year, a dark New Moon, the precise equinox moment, and a Harvest Moon passing Saturn into one easy month of naked-eye skywatching.
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A Fresh Nova Just Lit Up Sagitta — Bright Enough to Catch in Binoculars
A newly confirmed classical nova in Sagitta, V488 Sge, has brightened to magnitude 7.42 and is one of at least four novae visible simultaneously this unusually active season.
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Sunspot AR4513 Fires an M7 Flare as NOAA Posts a G2 Storm Watch Days Before the Lunar Eclipse
A sprawling, magnetically tangled sunspot let loose an M7 flare and a run of CMEs, prompting a G2 storm watch whose aurora timing may or may not line up with this week's partial lunar eclipse.
