You may remember that amount of 22 degrees from a previous Hey Ray about halos. The hexagonal ice crystals that refract light to create Sun and Moon halos are present when Sun dogs are created ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

At its closest to the sun, the comet was almost as bright as the planet Venus (currently a spectacular sight in the western evening sky). Within a couple of weeks, the comet will cease to be ...

There’s a pattern to all of this: from Earth, Venus appears to have an eight-year cycle in which it orbits the sun 13 times. This current apparition of Venus at the bright “Evening Star ...