We were welcomed with the May night sky. Over in the west, shortly after sunset, the brilliant planet Venus was still seen high in the rapidly darkening sky. This planet stayed at approximately the same altitude in the sky throughout the month of May. This is because Venus is moving westward at the same rate as the Sun and, on May 17th, the crescent Moon, also was moving westwards, and came close to the planet.
On May 9th, the gas giant planet Jupiter was at opposition in the constellation of Libra and this means that it was at its brightest and it was seen rising in the southeast at sunset. When at opposition, it was in the south at local midnight and set in the southwest at daybreak.
Through a small telescope, the cloud belts and four major moons of Jupiter were easily seen. When Jupiter was high in the south, over in the southeast the ringed planet Saturn was seen rising in the constellation of Sagittarius. Soon after Saturn rises, the red planet Mars also rose, and it was noticeably brighter than last month as of April it was getting closer to the Earth for its opposition later this year.
The first week in May had the normally reliable Eta Aquarid meteor shower that peaks on the night of May 5th. This meteor shower is dust left over from the tail of Halley’s comet. This shower has its origin point in the constellation of Aquarius and the meteors saw it coming from rather low in the sky in the direction west travelling east.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was successfully launched on April 18th, after a short delay. It is hoped that it will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars. It will be searching 85% of the heavens, and it is very likely to discover many Earth-like worlds. This will be very important as these are the planets we will be travelling to in the coming centuries.
This satellite is expected to discover hundreds of Earth-like worlds relatively close to us and, if this is the case, it will statistically prove that there are tens of thousands of potentially habitable worlds within the range of our future star ships.
The Moon was seen as a last quarter on May 8th, new on the 15th, first quarter on the 22nd and full is going to be seen today's night 29th.
source https://sinananewsrwanda.blogspot.co.id/2018/05/the-night-sky-view-of-may-2018.html?m=1
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