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Our March 2024 stargazing guide for how to see it everything happening in the night sky throughout the month!

This is a great time of year for stargazing.

A few weeks ago, from April 5-12, we celebrated International Dark Sky Week, to raise awareness of the negative effects of light pollution and dark sky defenders connect to protect the night sky. Light pollution is caused by improper lighting fixtures resulting in invasive light glow that fades the stars and reduces the average person’s ability to view the Milky Way. International Dark Sky Week was created in 2003, by a then-high school student, Jennifer Barlow from Virginia, and has grown to an annual worldwide event. The event is held during the New Moon, when skies are at their darkest a...

Sky Shorts: Our Red Planet fascination Suzie Dills For centuries, humans have been intrigued by the bright, reddish object that wanders our night sky, the planet Mars. We loved it, feared it, and hoped for signs of life. We even convinced ourselves that Mars was like our planet Earth, with ice caps, seasons, similar rotation, and it is also a rocky planet. This made it easy to believe that life emerged on Mars and we could visit someday, due to its proximity to Earth. The first person to observe Mars with a telescope was Galileo Galilei in 1610. In the 1800’s, larger observatories were buil...

Sky Shorts: Space exploration and night sky highlights for 2021 Suzie Dills Although 2020 was a very difficult year for us, it gave us a chance to take time to observe astronomical highlights and night sky delights and view live broadcasts of historic launches. Many of us enjoyed the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the surprise visit of Comet NEOWISE. We watched the launch of the next Mars rover, Perseverance in July. History was made with the NASA SpaceX Crew Dragon flight, the first American rocket launch since 2011 and the NASA’s Space X Crew 1 Mission. 2021 HIGHLIGHTS Mars 2...