Arts & Entertainment Comet Not Seen From Earth For 80,000 Years Will Pass By Us Starting This Weekend A comet that likely has never been viewed by modern humans, and was last visible from Earth at the time of the Neanderthals, will come in its closest path by our planet on Saturday, and you may be able to see it with your naked eye for several weeks in a row.
SF News Friday Night Lights Above NorCal Freak People Out, Were Actually Just Space Junk What appeared to be a fleet of invading space alien ships above Sacramento and much of Northern California Friday night spurred plenty of Cloverfield chatter, but it was apparently just flying, discarded parts from the International Space Station.
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Led Way On Delivering Spectacular New Telescope Images of Jupiter The best pictures ever of the biggest planet in the solar system have been unveiled, and it turns out an astronomer at UC Berkeley played a major role in making them happen.
SF News Comet Leonard, ‘2021’s Best Comet,’ Buzzing Through the December Skies Also known as C/2021 A, the Comet Leonard will be visible all month, and early mornings are your best time to see it. But you’ll probably need binoculars.
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For the Quadrantid Meteor Shower This Weekend Near the Big Dipper A meteor shower that is expected to go on through January 10 will peak tonight around midnight on the West Coast. It will be low to the horizon, but will at least be more visible than that November "unicorn" shower, which was a bust for California.
Arts & Entertainment Where To Watch The Eclipse In The Bay Area If you’re not heading to Oregon with your hippie friends or attempting to conceive a child with a Craigslist rando during Monday morning’s first full eclipse of the sun visible in
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The Supermoon Over The Bay Area 99.5% waxing gibbous. I needed to be out there like five minutes earlier. Not the coolest foreground, but when you are rushing around at the last minute, you take what you can
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Biggest Supermoon In Decades Tonight The second of three so-called supermoons in 2016 arrives Sunday night into Monday morning, and as Space.com tells us, this is the closest supermoon since January 1948 and the moon won't be
SF News Video: Exploratorium Livestreams Total Solar Eclipse From Micronesia Tonight According to the Exploratorium, there are just 100 miles in Southeast Asia from which a total Solar Eclipse, the astronomical event of the year, will be visible. Wait, you couldn't get to Micronesia
SF News The First Blue Moon In Three Years Arrives Tonight Point of information: The phrase "once in a blue moon" should convey something that happens not that often, but also often enough that it's not ultra-rare, like a blue moon, which is most
SF News Tonight: Black Supermoon Will Summon King Tides Remember all the supermoons last summer? The astronomical event of this evening will be a phenomenon sometimes called a "black supermoon," and it's the cause of a coastal flood advisory for the Bay
SF News Don't Worry: Tonight's Blood Moon Definitely Won't Spell Doom For Us All Have you heard about this lunar eclipse that's happening tonight? It's freaking some people out. But everyone just needs to calm down and pretend they have totally rational minds and we'll all get
SF News Photo: Last Night's Jupiter, Venus & Moon Viewing SF Citizen's Jim Herd snapped this amazing shot of last night's Jupiter, Venus, and moon sighting from Golden Gate Park. This planets were visible from all around the world last night. Did you
