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As evening twilight deepens, look to the east. You’ll see a brilliant red star rising. That star is actually not a star, but the planet Mars. Over the…
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This March is an ideal time to view the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. On March 8th, Jupiter, the Earth and the Sun were in a line, an…
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Saturn at OppositionLast month on the program we learned that only the five superior planets can be at opposition. The fast movement of our planet’s orbit…
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Mars At OppositionAstronomers use a number of curious words to describe the planets in their orbits, for example, quadrature, conjunction, elongation, and…