In the Sky This Week – March 26, 2019
My wife was awarded 2019 Teacher of the Year for her school district! Connie teaches middle-school science in New Haven, Michigan – she is a volunteer NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and has an asteroid named after her – I’d like to think she’s a good influence on me. The Moon joins Saturn and Jupiter in the south-southeastern predawn sky for several days this week. The Moon will appear very near Jupiter on the 27th. And a couple days later, the Moon will appear near Saturn. The constellations Orion and Taurus are in the western sky after sunset; nearby, Mars continues a slow crawl towards the Pleiades star cluster. This week’s P.S.: It’s spring, and my parrots are now making it nearly impossible for me to even think; they are completely insufferable this time of year. Globular Cluster M3 Messier 3 (M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered on May 3, 1764, and was the first … Continue reading →