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what's up for March planet Palooza in

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the morning a serious look at the dog

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star and an evening trio at the end of

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the month if you're up early

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any morning during March you'll want to

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go out and look toward the east to catch

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a lovely grouping of Mars Jupiter and

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Saturn the three planets are visible

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before dawn throughout the month at the

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beginning of March they form a line with

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Mars located here above Jupiter but each

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morning as the month goes on Mars

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appears to get closer to the giant

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planets on the 17th 18th and 19th an

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increasingly slim crescent moon joins

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the three planets in a celestial quartet

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Mars then passes just beneath Jupiter on

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the 19th through the 21st before

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continuing on its way ending the month

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here just beneath Saturn winter and

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early spring are a great time to marvel

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at Sirius the brightest star in our sky

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Sirius is nicknamed the dog star because

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it's the brightest star in the

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constellation Canis Major the main

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reason it's so bright in our sky is that

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it's one of the closest stars to our Sun

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at just 8.6 light-years away now Sirius

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is actually a binary star system with a

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tiny white dwarf companion although

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you'd need a decent-sized telescope to

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see it Sirius is super easy to locate

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just face toward the south and look for

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Orion the three bright stars that make

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up Orion's belt point downward towards

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Sirius unless you're in the southern

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hemisphere and then they point up toward

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Sirius NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft which

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in the past few years has begun

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exploring interstellar space is actually

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headed in the direction of Sirius it'll

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pass within 4.3 light years of the

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bright star in about 300,000 years

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finally this month on March 28th enjoy a

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beautiful grouping of Venus the crescent

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moon and the Pleiades in the western sky

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after sunset the Pleiades are one of the

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best known star clusters in the sky

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because they're so bright and easy to

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see even in most urban areas although

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only a handful of the brightest stars in

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the cluster are visible to the unaided

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eye there are actually hundreds there

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and they

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our dazzling when seen through

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binoculars or a small telescope here are

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the phases of the Moon for March you can

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catch up on all of NASA's current and

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future missions at nasa.gov I'm Preston

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dykes from NASA's Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory and that's what's up for this