EarthSky News - Nov 1 - November Planets

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November guide to the bright planets As November opens, Venus and Mars are up before dawn. Jupiter peeps over the sunrise horizon after November's 1st week and sweeps spectacularly near Venus. Saturn and Mercury are evening planets. At dawn next few mornings … Venus and Spica close Dazzling planet Venus and Spica, Virgo's brightest star, are in the same binocular field before sunrise on or around November 2. Is telekinesis real? In the Netflix series Stranger Things, the mysterious and powerful Eleven moves objects with her mind. Possible, or total sci-fi? A video explores the science of telekinesis. Plus a video on the Upside Down. Do parallel universes exist? A rare chance to scrutinize a comet's jet On July 3, 2016 - as Comet 67P erupted with a plume of dust - the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft happened to pass right through the dust cloud.

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At dawn next few mornings … Venus and Spica close Mars is up there, too, but very faint. Watch for them before the coming dawn washes the sky with its light.

Flying Horse over Cusco, Peru  If you travel from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere, or vice versa, you'll see familiar constellations. But their location in the sky will be shifted in surprising and delightful ways. That was the case for Linda Spadaro, who captured this image. Read her story. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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