If you’re a night owl, the 79.5% moon will be in conjunction with Jupiter in the early hours of Feb. 27 (around 01:30 AM ET).

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

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Artist rendition of the YSES-1 System consisting of the ~16 Myr Sun-like star in the center, YSES-1 b and its dusty circumplanetary disk (right), and YSES-1 c with silicate clouds in its atmosphere ...

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Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.