(WWJ) – Chances are, if you look up into the eastern nighttime sky this month, you’ll notice a big, bright light, but it won’t be twinkling like most stars appear to.
What is it? On this week’s edition of “All Over the Space,” WWJ’s Erin Vee asked Mike Murray of the Delta College Planetarium, “what is that bright thing off to the east?”
He said he and other space experts love to get that type of question, because “that’s when it gets fun.”
“You get an extremely bright planet that’s low to the horizon that’s low to the horizon and people go, ‘what is that bright star?’ In the east, it’s not a star at all. Right now, it’s the planet Jupiter.”
Murray says Jupiter is coming back into the night sky, and because of how big it is, it is one of the brightest planets we can see in the night sky.
So, what’s the best way to get a glimpse of the gas giant?
“This month, we have Jupiter rising soon after it gets dark. So look over low in the east soon after twilight is over and it’ll be, by far, the brightest starlike object in that part of the sky and it will not twinkle like the stars.”
Also on this edition of “All Over the Space,” Murray talked about the downside of SpaceX’s recent launch of the massive Blue Water 3 satellite.
More information on the Delta College Planetarium in Bay City can be found online. Follow the planetarium on Facebook and Instagram for the latest news and updates.
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