Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 2Asteroid 4 Vesta reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT this ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Sunrise: 6:17 A.M. Sunset: 7:42 P.M. Moonrise ... and its proximity to the horizon allows for stunning compositions that combine landscape elements with the predawn sky. Now is the best time ...

Whereas in Shetland around the summer solstice the sun never drops more than 6 degrees below the horizon, therefore Civil twilight stretches for nearly 5 hours from sunset to sunrise the next day ...

Texas stargazers can catch a rare "smiley face" in the sky on Friday, April 25. Venus, Saturn and the Moon will create the spectacle just before sunrise.