In Chicago, the skyline can light up in the night, but looking a little higher in the stars will put on a show, too.

But if you're worried about missing these events because of all the city lights, our next guest says they're still planning to see here to break down what to expect in 2025.

Is our good friend Joel Guzman, founder and CEO Chicago astronomer.

Here's he's also and NASA.

Ambassador, thank you, Joe.

Welcome.

Happy New Year.

some new year.

New Year.

I see you brought really cool.

Tell us Goble first.

Before we get to that, we know 2025.

Is already off to Nick starting an exciting start with this rare event called parade of planets.

What is it?

>> The slowest orbits of the planets umpires to biased to one side of the solar system.

Sometimes the Morningstar, sometimes evening stars right now currently.

Planets are pushed to one side.

So during the evening time to get to see planets such as Venus and Mars and Saturn and Jupiter.

And if you have a telescope, you can see Uranus and Neptune but it's it's a semi rare event.

It's just a natural progression of the orbit.

So talking about if we can see it, if you could see if you have a telescope.

>> Uranus and Neptune, but other 4 planets make it a day.

That's so awesome.

Now, last summer we saw solar eclipse, thousands of people gather to see that to see that this year brings a lunar eclipse.

Remind us what's happening here in what will what will we be able to see from Chicago?

2024?

Was a fantastic year for urban astronomy.

Not only do we have the solar eclipse in April, but we have learned or eclipse and we had a comment and don't forget those fantastic Aurora displays that we saw right from the city.

>> 25 has a lot to catch up with, but already in January, we have the parade of planets.

We're going to have the crescent Moon do a conjunction and median a pairing with Myers and Center tomorrow.

And then on the 10th the moon will continue its path and will kiss Jupiter it will be right next to a red giant the number.

that's fantastic.

Photo opportunities.

And that's just January continues.

It's not over yet.

We ares being its closest approach to the Earth.

Now since 2022 is that called in occultation generate much.

even go to that one, That's a new one, because it I see here that March will stop some unique event.

yeah, and that's what it's called.

And on the 13th of January.

>> full Wolf Moon say that the wolf moon with mowing equipment each month has a has a name snow, moon, cold moon.

>> It will cold Mars, the planet Mars, which means that the moon will slide between the Earth and Mars.

And if your roads are in Merced, make it through a telescope.

We'll just blink out of existence Chicagoans will be able to see events is most definitely grab a pair of binoculars grappa telescope.

Even they couldn't just get out watch.

What about space exploration?

What kinds of things might we learn are try to find out this year.

>> Nasa has launched a probe to one of the moons Jupiter Europa.

It's called the Europa Clipper euro, but euro because euro, but Clipper and its job is to land on ice to to move on, covered in ice and underneath this crust of ice oceans, oceans of water.

Each liquid water.

And when you have the high life So we're going to find and see if there's a new discovery.

definitely in that we're getting the Artemis mission ready to go to the moon again, we haven't been there in over 50 years, but NASA's have been setbacks right now.

But don't get Get there.

What are you most excited about?

Everything, everything.

Astronomical.

I'm excited about teaching in and and having young minds and you've been teaching for a couple years.

right.

Well, after school matters, really 6 years and I started the Chicago stronger in 2004.

And I know that that program is always full.

There's always a line of of kids wanting 10200.

I wanted to join all.

most definitely.

And it's a great pleasure that these young guys want to study astronomy and space exploration.

Tell me about this telescope here.

You said it's from 6 to Astros Camp Telescope.

>> It was made for the adventurer has a strapped you can put on your backpacking, go camping, going mountain climbing.

It was built to take abuse and it's nice.

Whitefield views.

did you say you 19 7?

This is a classic coast.

Took a hard to get, but it's easy.

Nothing complicated.

Nothing fancy just popping in piece and you're studying the that is so to see.

Also the advancements in the telescope's.

Oh, not all.

Manual we have telescopes.

Know you just punch a few buttons and those still slow to return so also now it's still a bit cold right now for outside events.

But are you planning anything for the summer?

What are you looking forward to viewing?

The Chicago Strummer takes a hiatus during the winter, just a little cold out there.

We like the war will go when I was a kid, I'd be out there and 20 below, but all those decades.

So >> we will start in March and our season begins in March and ends in December.

So we will long observational season with the public thousands of people come out and share disguise.

can you just shared so many different events?

What's one event that you feel that Chicago in should pay attention coming up?

Is that lunar eclipse March March, the 14th.

That's the Friday.

So it's early morning event starts at 12 midnight.

>> And ends at 05:00AM the peak will be at 02:00AM.

you know, if you see in the first part, the second part of that just repeat of the first part, you can go back to bed.

But this is where earth blocks all this It promises to be a deep crimson type of leak lips this time around.

Let's hope for