What's Up for December 2024

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A desert shrub is seen in silhouette against a dark, starry sky, as a bright meteor falls toward the horizon.

What’s Up: December 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

5 min read

Catch December’s Celestial Highlights! This month, Venus dazzles as the “Evening Star,” Jupiter reaches its brightest for the year, and the Geminid meteor shower peaks under challenging moonlit skies. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planet Visibility: December 3-5 – Venus…

Article1 week ago
The Milky Way spreads across a twilight sky over a desert landscape.

What’s Up: November 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

5 min read

Planets visible in November: Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

Article1 month ago
A man looks through a telescope at twilight.

What’s Up: October 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

6 min read

A new comet is passing through the inner solar system! Time will tell if it's the brightest of the year, once it appears in twilight after about Oct. 14.

Article2 months ago

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About the What's Up production team

"What's Up" is NASA's longest running web video series. It had its first episode in April 2007 with original host Jane Houston Jones. Today, Preston Dyches, Christopher Harris, and Lisa Poje are the space enthusiasts who produce this monthly video series at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Additional astronomy subject matter guidance is provided by JPL's Bill Dunford, Lyle Tavernier, and the Night Sky Network's Kat Troche.

The What's Up team celebrates the memory of Gary Spiers, who provided astronomy observing guidance for the series for many years.

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