Mary Stewart Adams
Mary Stewart Adams is a Star Lore Historianand host of the weekly public radio program and podcast “The Storyteller’s Night Sky.” Mary published her first book The Star Tales of Mother Goose~For Those Who Seek the Secret Language of the Stars, in 2021, richly illustrated by her sister and long-time collaborator, artist Patricia Delisa.
As a global advocate for starry skies, Mary led the team that established the 9th International Dark Sky Park in the world in 2011, which later led to her home state of Michigan protecting 35,000 acres of state land for its natural darkness.
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Not to be outdone by our own star the Sun and its recent eclipse drama, a couple of stars in the constellation Corona Borealis are cooking up their own fantastic display.
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The meeting of Jupiter and Uranus on Saturday is the kind of meeting that only happens once every 14 years ... so it’s worth paying attention to.
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The biggest astronomical event of the year is next week’s Total Solar Eclipse, and if you plan to see it, make sure you also know what else is going on in the sky.
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The Feast of the Annunciation is observed in the Christian calendar on March 25 each year, the date of this year’s vernal full moon. Not only that, the moon will also be eclipsed.
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On Wednesday, the crescent Moon will appear beside Jupiter in the evening sky, two hours after sunset looking west. And so begins this week’s grand adventure.
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This year, March is the month when the planet Venus, as morning star, gives way to the glare of the Sun.
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The waning gibbous Moon will move from the region of Virgo stars to Libra, where, on Friday morning, it will be near the star Zubenelgenubi.
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To say that the moon will be full on Saturday, Feb. 24, is a simple statement of astronomical observation, and yet, it’s so much more.
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Aphrodite for the ancient Greeks bore the name Venus in the ancient Roman world, and the planet of love and beauty that bears this goddess’s name is the most brilliant object in the sky, after Sun and Moon.