This week features several celestial events, including a full 'Wolf Moon' occulting Mars, Mars at its brightest for over two years, and a close conjunction of Venus and Saturn.
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead .This week you can watch the full “ Wolf Moon ” rise to occult Mars . Then you can see the red planet at its biggest, brightest and best for over two years.
However, one of the planetary joys of this week will be seeing Venus and Saturn inch closer to each other each night this week before finally seeming almost to “kiss” on Saturday.Monday, Jan. 13: A Full ‘Wolf Moon’ Rises Hours before a major astronomical event comes a more familiar one — the rising of January’s full moon, the “Wolf Moon.” Get somewhere with a good view of the eastern horizon to watch it appear just after the sun has set in the west. It will look more prominent than usual and be a beautiful, muted orange.
Here comes one of the highlights of 2025 — a bright planet, Mars, eclipsed for a few hours by a near-full ‘Wolf Moon.’ The action will take place high in the sky and be visible across North America, with the action taking place between 8:44 p.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 13 and ending at 00:52 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 14. However, where you are will determine what you see and when, with the event — Mars disappearing and then appearing again — taking place for just over an hour.
The event will happen while the moon and Mars are close to the bright star Pollux in Gemini, with the other “twin” of Gemini, Castor, close by. At 34 and 51 light-years distant, these star systems are in the sun’s neighborhood.Remember October’s comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS? Today another comet, C/2024 G3 , makes its closest approach to the Earth. However, since it’s in the summer constellation of Sagittarius, it’s not going to be visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
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How to see the full 'Wolf Moon' swallow Mars this weekJamie Carter is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor based in Cardiff, U.K. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others.
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