Earthsky Tonight – Dec 28 2009 Moon glides by

Courtesy of EarthSky A Clear Voice for Science www.EarthSky.org Tonight, moving eastward as it always does in orbit around Earth, the moon will pass by the Pleiades. Our sky chart shows you what the moon and the Pleiades cluster might look like through binoculars this early evening. Early stargazers sometimes described the Pleiades as a ‘swarm of bees’ in the night sky. Modern stargazers sometimes mistake it for the asterism known as the Little Dipper. The true Little ... Full Story