Here comes another great month for stargazing. If you’ve been learning about the night sky during lockdown and paying attention to what goes on each evening in the skies above you may already have seen a bright naked-eye comet, a “Super Blood Moon” lunar eclipse and even a super-rare “great conjunction.”

Now get ready for some repeats—and some incredible new sights.

November will see a couple of meteor showers—the South and North Taurids—as well as the seventh planet, Uranus, at opposition. Those in North America may also get to see a big partial lunar eclipse on November 19 2021 and, if we’re all really lucky, our planet may just get treated to another rare sight as Comet Leonard pays us a visit. That’s due to look its best in December, but for now there’s plenty to get excited about in the November night skies … not least the return of the famous constellation of Orion “the hunter”.

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Homer Hickam is the author of Rocket Boys, the book that inspired the film October Sky. The NASA engineer reveals why he thinks the agency should focus on nuclear rockets and other ideas.

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating Halloween by releasing new images of a spooky “orange eye” peeking out of a cosmic cloud.

The eye in question is CW Leonis, a carbon star in the constellation of Leo, the lion.

Look closely at the main image, above, and you’ll see that not only is CW Leonis itself an incredible sight, but around it are countless distant galaxies.… See more.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has confirmed that a massive solar flare has erupted from an Earth-facing sunspot on October 28.

Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have recreated the structure of ice formed at the center of planets like Neptune.

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun. In our solar system, it is the fourth-largest planet by size, and third densest. It is named after the Roman god of the sea.