Other names for the month's full moon include the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon and the Frog Moon.A new comet is approaching the sun, and by mid-May, it may glow brightly enough to be visible in the night sky.As the calendar turns to May, the milder nights may entice more people to venture outside under the heavens for a night of stargazing. This allowed onlookers to enjoy the first meteor shower since January on a night without the moon shining bright.Like us on Facebook to see similar storiesSupermoon or not, May's full moon is commonly called the Flower Moon, as it is the time of year when most flowers are in bloom.
Copyright © Mysterious Universe. This comet has already come closest to Earth (on May 12-13, 2020), at a distance of 51.7 million miles (83.2 million km). The comet arrived at perihelion on July 3, sweeping to within 27.7 million miles (44.5 million km) of the sun and is now heading back out to the outer reaches of space. C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.At that time, it was an 18th-magnitude object, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from … By the time that the Lyrid meteor shower reached its peak near the end of the month, the moon was in its new phase. The Eta Aquarids are the only major meteor shower of the month, and there will not be another until late July.The last in a series of four supermoons since early February will glow just two nights after the peak of the Eta Aquarids.Here are the top three astronomy events to look for in May:Comet SWAN is projected to get brighter by the middle of the month and will make its closest approach to Earth on May 13 at a distance of around 50 million miles.Many of the upcoming astronomical sights can be seen by just stepping outside into the backyard without having to travel to a dark area.Now, a new comet has appeared, named Comet SWAN, and it has the potential to outshine some stars in the sky.Please give an overall site rating:
For those who want to witness a spectacular event, all you need to do is go outside in May and look up, way up.
Last month, Comet ATLAS took center stage as … In the spring of 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp made a spectacular appearance in the night sky as well as Comet Hyakutake which passed by a year earlier.
Friday, May 1 Winter’s constellations are quickly disappearing from our sky, so now is the time to glimpse your favorites before they’re gone. The Northern Hemisphere has great seats from now right up until the comet reaches perihelion on May 31, when ATLAS makes its closest approach … The newly discovered Comet ATLAS (or C/2019 Y4) will fly by Earth in just a couple of months and experts say that it could be as bright as the moon. It’s now heading toward … Comets McNaught (in 2007) and Lovejoy (in 2011) also put on great shows but were only seen in the Southern Hemisphere.Comet observer Carl Hergenrother weighed in on its brightness by stating, “We should expect the rate of increase to slow again,” adding, “This is where it gets tricky for predicting just how bright it will get.” All we can do is hope that the comet is bright enough for stargazers to capture a glimpse of it while it passes by Earth as we won’t ever see it again because it follows a trajectory of 6,000 years per orbit.The comet will move to the Camelopardalis constellation later this month. Mid-May.