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[ Watch the Video: ScienceCasts: Saturn Close Up ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online This weekend, stargazers should dust-off their telescopes and catch a glimpse of Saturn at its best and brightest. On Sunday, April 28th, Saturn will be making its closest approach to Earth, appearing bigger and brighter than at any other time in 2013. Astronomers refer to this event as "an opposition," because Saturn will be opposite the sun in the skies of Earth. The planet...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For those living in the Eastern Hemisphere, the first lunar eclipse of 2013 will be taking place on Thursday during the Pink Moon. This partial eclipse of the Moon will be visible in its entirety from eastern Europe, Africa, central Asia and western Australia. However, it will not be visible in North America unless you watch Slooh's live broadcast. The Slooh Space Camera will be broadcasting live feed of the partial lunar eclipse free...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online An asteroid about the size of a city block will be making its way past Earth later today, and Slooh plans on giving the world access to its tools to view the near-Earth object (NEO). Slooh, a leader in live, celestial event programming, said in a statement earlier this week that it will be broadcasting the asteroid 2013 ET on Saturday (Mar 9) as the it passes by Earth at about 2.5 times the Moon's distance from us. 2013 ET was...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Update: January 19, 2013 On Monday evening, astronomers (both amateurs and pros) across the country will be looking up to the skies to witness the super close dance between Jupiter and the Moon. Slooh Space Camera will also be there broadcasting live feeds of the event, giving everyone a shot at seeing the chance encounter. The waxing gibbous moon will appear about one degree south of Jupiter on Monday night, January 21. This...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Asteroid 99942, named Apophis after an ancient Egyptian mythological demon, will be whizzing by Earth this week. Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of approximately three football fields – over 880 feet. The Slooh Space Camera will cover it's near approach on Wednesday, January 9th, 2013. The public can watch several live shows – available on PC, iPhone and Android devices - on Slooh.com starting around...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, 4179 Toutatis, will be making a close approach of Earth this week, just in time to give "world ending" theorists something to talk about. The asteroid has an estimated diameter of over 3 miles, which is about half the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Some believe that the Mayan calendar predicts the world will be ending this year on December 21 due to an asteroid striking...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Slooh will be offering a real-time feed of Jupiter on the night it is at its closest to Earth until the summer of 2021. The coverage will be of Jupiter at its brightest and biggest, and will be taking place this Sunday, December 2, starting at 5:15 p.m. Pacific. Viewers will be able to watch the celestial event live from their PC, or smartphones powered by Apple's iOS or Google's Android. The Jupiter event will be hosted by...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online On Tuesday night, there will be no football, and the World Series will be a day away, but there will be another spectacle you can watch. Slooh.com said it will be broadcasting a one-of-a-kind celestial event on Tuesday night, as Comet 168P/Hergenrother and Comet C/2012 J1 (Catalina) pass each other in space. Slooh will begin providing live coverage of this event starting at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, accompanied by real-time discussions...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomy Day is taking place on Saturday, and one organization will be broadcasting live celestial programming to celebrate. Slooh will be offering up 11 hours of free broadcasting of the cosmos, focusing on a particular topic or various celestial objects. The organization said that Paul Cox will be hosting the 11-hour live extravaganza, accompanied by several guests like Bob Berman. The broadcast will start by telling the story...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In relative terms, the Earth is about to escape another asteroid impact on Thursday by the hair on its chin. Although it's not like the 14-story sized asteroid is going to be nearing so close to Earth that you will be getting a prime view of in it your backyard, it will be about 7.5 times the Moon's distance from our planet. The asteroid, which is between 625 and 1,400 feet across, is close enough to Earth to be classified a...