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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 6, 2026
The Retrograde Dance of Saturn and Neptune
What does it mean for Saturn and Neptune to be in retrograde? Featured is a composite of images taken over 34 nights from May 2025 to February 2026 tracing Saturn (brighter, foreground) and Neptune (dimmer, background). Over that time, the two planets exhibited retrograde motion, meaning they appeared to move backward in the sky. This apparent backwards motion occurs when Earth overtakes the slower outer planets as they orbit the Sun. Imagine the Solar System is a running track. Earth "runs" faster along the inside of the track compared to the outer planets. As Earth approaches, aligns, and then "laps" the outer planets, they change position from ahead to behind from the Earth's perspective. This perspective shift is what causes the outer planets to change position in the night sky. An animation corresponding to today’s image shows Saturn and Neptune’s months-long dance across the northern night sky. Saturn stepped from the Pisces constellation into Aquarius and back again while Neptune remained in Pisces. This is the closest Saturn and Neptune have been in the sky since their last conjunction in 1989.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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Second fireball in a week lights up Washington skies
May 5, 2026
Cameras in Olympia recorded a fireball crossing state skies early Tuesday morning.
This is the second such missive from space to be seen in western Washington in about a week, and just in time for "May the Fourth," an informal holiday celebrating the "Star Wars" franchise.
The name of the holiday is a play on words for the iconic Star Wars phrase "may the force be with you."
Street cameras at the Washington State Capitol Campus recorded the incident at about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, showing multiple angles of a bright green flash with a glowing orange tail.
Witness reports logged on the American Meteor Society website around 11:30 p.m. describe the fireball in detail.
"To my perspective, it was the size of a light-pole, but much brighter. The initial light through the sky caught my attention, but the flash of light and then the disappear was really alarming. Initially, the comet/fireball was light yellow, but the terminal flash was closer to white. It is too dark outside right now, I couldn't see any fragmentation after the flash," wrote one witness on the AMS website.
Per astronomers at NASA, meteors originate as rocks in space that can range in size from grains of dust to small asteroids.
When they enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up, they become meteors, and especially bright meteors are called fireballs.
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