New Year dawn

Like heralds mounting on a battlement and sounding their trumpets to announce the start of a year, they will come up over the eastern horizon: Vega, Deneb, Altair, Antares, followed by Mercury and, later, the Sun.

Vega, Deneb, Altair form the Summer Triangle. Low in winter nights and mornings, it will stand upright, half a year later, in the evening sky.

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