The beautiful crescent #Moon is approaching bright planet #Jupiter in the predawn sky. Prior to sunrise, look to the east-southeast to observe this beautiful sight.

What’s in the #sky this month? All Space Considered’s Patrick So has your monthly Sky Report from Griffith Observatory. Watch the full version here: youtu.be/lV3fbWy2CTk

Happy #June1! Here are this month’s Moon phases. The full #Moon is on June 3, 2023 and the new Moon occurs on June 17.

It’s the last day of winter! Join Griffith Observatory staff as we celebrate the first day of spring on Monday, March 20, 2023. griffithobservatory.org/even… griffithobservatory.org/even…

Have you seen planets #Jupiter and #Venus in the evening sky growing closer and closer together each evening? Their conjunction takes place In one week, on March 1, 2023. More info: griffithobservatory.org/even…

Planet #Mars at opposition on December 9, 2022. Photo taken by Griffith Observatory Telescope Demonstrator Anthony Perkic (@DesertCoyote22).

The beautiful #HeartNebula (IC 1805) is located in constellation Cassiopeia, about 7,500 light years from Earth. Photo Credit: Dr. Adrian Jannetta (@AdrianJannetta)

#OTD 17 years ago, January 19, 2006, the New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket. New Horizons made it to planet #Pluto in 2015, the first spacecraft to study the dwarf planet close up.

We were thrilled to catch up with Griffith Observatory’s former Astronomical Observer and ASC correspondent Anthony Cook (@AnthonyJCook2) during last week’s All Space Considered! We discussed all things #Comet 2022 e3 (ZTF) and the best viewing options!

The Sun setting with some green flash in December 2022. The image with three suns is a composite of three images taken seconds apart. A green flash is caused by the dispersion of sunlight through Earth’s atmosphere and generally lasts a couple of seconds.

In the evening sky this week after #sunset, around 5:45 p.m., PST, see if you can spot planets #Mars, #Jupiter, #Saturn, & #Venus across the sky!

Look up! This week each evening around 6:00 p.m., PST, planets #Venus and #Saturn will cross paths. On the 22nd and 23rd, observe a tiny sliver of the crescent #Moon appearing with the two planets.

Griffith Observatory Telescope Demonstrator Anthony Perkic (@DesertCoyote22) caught this amazing image of planet #Jupiter through Griffith Observatory’s 12” Zeiss telescope. To the left is Jupiter’s moon Io, and to the right is Ganymede. See if you can spot Ganymede’s shadow!

Thank you to those that joined us for All Space Considered last night! Miss the show? Catch up here: youtu.be/JFk_QIcE1m8

#Astrophysicist Johannes Franz Hartmann was born on this day in 1865. He made the first detection of cold diffuse matter in #interstellar #space in 1904 using absorption line #spectroscopy. A lunar #crater is named for him.

Wow! On December 14, 2022, Maria Søndermølle captured this incredible shot of a Geminid meteor over a beach in Denmark.

Have you seen planet #Jupiter through a telescope? Griffith Observatory’s Dave Nakamoto captured this beautiful image on December 7, 2022. See if you can spot Jupiter’s moon Io in the right of this image.

Stunning #sunset taken by All Space Considered’s Patrick So on December 19, 2022. Planet #Venus is low in the southwest around 5:30 p.m., 36 minutes after sunset. Above Venus, planet #Mercury is visible faintly in the evening twilight.

A setting crescent #Moon provides soft reddish lighting in the foreground of this image from Joshua Tree National Park. Griffith Observatory Telescope Demonstrator Todd Kunioka caught this beautiful shot in July 2022.