A beautiful, waning crescent moon will glide past a row of planets, passing Saturn, Mars, and finally Jupiter and Venus on April 27.
Sky Watch: Venus and Mars in Conjunction
Love and war come together in our western sky on the evening of July 12.
Love and war come together in our western sky on the evening of July 12 with the conjunction of Venus and Mars.
Sky Watch: Ecliptic
April provides an chance to identify the ecliptic, the plane of the Earth’s orbit.
April provides an chance to identify the ecliptic, the plane of the Earth’s orbit. The ecliptic passes just south of the red glow of Mars.