Whats Up In Your Sky ────────────── Compiled by Robert Cattrysse. Here are the Whats Up segments from January through December for the year 2014. This is a monthly short video feature from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Each month they take a look at what can be seen in the sky with a bit about what else is going on in astronomy and space. Clear skies! ☆☾☼☽☆ Whats Up for December 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 32 seconds. youtu.be/VR59NXwy7a0 Published on December 1, 2014. The December Geminids and Ursids offer up two more chances to see meteor showers this year. Plus, there are two comets to look for through telescopes. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for November 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 37 seconds. youtu.be/6BQUoiv59Xc Published on November 10, 2014. Twin meteor showers feature the slow Taurids and the swift Leonids while Rosettas lander Philae is scheduled to land on Comet C-G and transmit data from the surface about the comets composition. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for October 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 29 seconds. youtu.be/uPQh0JwfEh4 Published on October 1, 2014. Whats Up for October? A lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and Mars has a close encounter with a comet. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for September 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 35 seconds. youtu.be/gj9MshXoUy0 Published on August 29, 2014. View the red star Antares near the red planet Mars, plus the Zodiacal Light that points towards Jupiter in the morning sky. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for August 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 30 seconds. youtu.be/yLxtK2WDhU0 Published on August 1, 2014. Go outside to see Venus and Jupiter at dawn, Saturn and Mars at dusk. No telescope required! Plus the annual Perseid meteor shower is in full swing now through the 17th. The shower peaks the night of August 12-13, but the bright moon that night will likely interfere with viewing some of the fainter meteors. The Perseid shower occurs each year when Earth travels through a trail of dusty particles left behind by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for July 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 38 seconds. youtu.be/lSejxrjhD_M Published on July 1, 2014. Spot Pluto and see the Milky Way and planets all month long. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for June 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 39 seconds. youtu.be/qSWbSq7vTXk Published on June 2, 2014. Moon and planet pairings at dawn and dusk. Spot elusive Mercury, some comets, and more. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for May 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 42 seconds. youtu.be/4mxFlUCliWg Published on April 30, 2014. Whats up for May. Great views of Saturn and Mars all night long. And a possible new meteor shower. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up For April 2014 Length: 3 minutes, 28 seconds. youtu.be/DOS-LkdTTGE Published on March 31, 2014. Mars opposition Apr 8, lunar eclipse Apr 14-15, Aprils Lyrid meteors Apr 23. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for March 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 49 seconds. youtu.be/U78i1gLPeaY Published on March 4, 2014. Watch starlight get blocked by a passing asteroid, planets march across the sky and a lunar eclipse preview. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for February 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 23 seconds. youtu.be/KiSqDly3ZRs Published on February 3, 2014. See all the planets, plus mission updates from comet and asteroid missions Dawn and Rosetta. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫 Whats Up for January 2014 Length: 2 minutes, 29 seconds. youtu.be/1jnVdoX8Dn0 Published on December 30, 2013. Jupiter at opposition. Venus at conjunction. A Juno mission update. And the Quadrantid meteor shower. ─── 🌠 🔭 💫
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