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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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The spring equinox comes our way this week. It’s striking when the first Full Moon of the Spring is eclipsed, because this is the Moon that is used in most cultural and religious traditions of the Northern Hemisphere to determine the dates for the Spring festivals of renewal.
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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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Only once every 12 years will the Olympian King of the Gods stand beside the lead star of the zodiac with the Moon sweeping by on Valentine’s Day, and it’s happening this year.