"The first time I spotted it, I thought at first it may have been a rare form of blue aurora but then realised it was moving too quickly."
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The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.
Spica is a binary star system located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
The spiral galaxy NGC 5907 is positioned edge-on to Earth.
A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million km) of Earth on June 5 and you can watch it happen live online.
Aurora chasers, keep your eyes on the skies as we might be in for another show this weekend, albeit slightly smaller than the performances earlier this week.
The lander won't be visible from Earth, but its landing site on Mare Frigoris will be.
Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse."
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Oregon as geomagnetic storm conditions start to wane.
