{"id":21748,"date":"2020-05-01T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21748"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:16:27","slug":"videos-night-sky-highlights-for-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21748","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Night sky highlights for May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong> Update 2<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/whats-up-skywatching-tips-from-nasa\/\">What&#8217;s Up: May 2020<\/a> &#8211; Skywatching Tips from NASA JPL<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">What astronomy highlights can you see in the sky in May 2020? Venus, Sirius and the Milky Way. With so many of us staying home these days, here&#8217;s a look into the sky at dusk and dawn with an eye toward the vast stretches of wide open space right above our heads. Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What&#8217;s Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/whats-up-skywatching-tips-from-nasa\/\">https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/whats-up&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LipU4lBGNzQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/skywatch-whats-happening-in-the-heavens-in-may\/2020\/05\/02\/f6c93372-8bc2-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html\">Skywatch: What\u2019s happening in the heavens in May &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p>**<strong> Tonight&#8217;s Sky<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/spacetelescopevision\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Telescope Science Institute &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In May, we are looking away from the crowded, dusty plane of our own galaxy toward a region where the sky is brimming with distant galaxies. Locate Virgo to find a concentration of roughly 2,000 galaxies and search for Coma Berenices to identify many more. Keep watching for space-based views of galaxies like the Sombrero Galaxy, M87, and M64.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lY0aRLdcuEY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>What&#8217;s in the Night Sky May 2020<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCKxQ3Dx6K95hpLpdJjTRIlg\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alyn Wallace &#8211; YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qeT-LeabS9E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <strong>What to see in the night sky: May 2020<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bbcskyatnightmag\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC Sky at Night Magazine &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel guide us through May&#8217;s stargazing highlights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8WWOf25wXlw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>===<\/em><strong><em> Amazon Ad <\/em><\/strong><em>===<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1588346641\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1588346641&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=156a819766f963a2c908a54630a5ccfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1588346641\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1588346641&amp;asins=1588346641&amp;linkId=de9745f08d6a5f6d3c25ce0702be3f3a&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Update 2: What&#8217;s Up: May 2020 &#8211; Skywatching Tips from NASA JPL What astronomy highlights can you see in the sky in May 2020? Venus, Sirius and the Milky Way. With so many of us staying home these days, here&#8217;s a look into the sky at dusk and dawn with an eye toward the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Night sky highlights for May 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-5EM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21942,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21942","url_meta":{"origin":21748,"position":0},"title":"Night sky highlights for June 2020","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"[ Update June.12.2020: What's Up: June 2020 - NASA JPL: What are some skywatching highlights you can see in June 2020? 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