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Category: astronomy
Back to the Earthrise Photo
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Mercury’s first evening act of 2021
Mercury will be farthest out in the evening sky on January 24 (or 23, by American clocks).
Twentieth day of a brightening year
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Stripe Latin Delights
Do you recognize these bright stars that are looming into our evening sky?
Life and limericks must go on
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A close grouping of three planets, in the evening sky, but very low to the horizon.
Crashing into the Last Quarter Moon
It’s still getting colder. Back on December 21 passed the winter solstice – accompanied, this year, by the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – and then on December 31 the lamentable moment when once-Great Britain dropped out of a greater family, the European Union.
The Christmas sky
With Jupiter and Saturn still close enough to pose as a joint “Star of Bethlehem.”
The conjoint star
You might think that crane had pulled it into view.
