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Highlights of the North Spring Sky
Explanation: What can you see in the night sky this season? The featured graphic gives a few highlights for
Earth's northern hemisphere. Viewed as a clock face centered at the bottom, early (northern) spring sky events fan out toward the left, while late spring events are projected toward the right. Objects relatively close to
Earth are illustrated, in general, as nearer to the cartoon figure with the telescope at the bottom center -- although almost
everything pictured can be
seen without a telescope. As happens during any season,
constellations appear the same year to year, and, as usual, the
Lyrids meteor shower will peak in mid-April. Also as usual, the
International Space Station (ISS)
can be seen, at times, as a bright spot
drifting across the sky after sunset. After the
Vernal Equinox next week, the length of daytime will be greater than the length of nighttime in Earth's northern hemisphere, an inequality that will escalate as the
spring season develops. Also as spring ages,
Jupiter becomes visible increasingly earlier in the night. As spring draws to a close, the month of May will feature two full moons, the second of which is called a
Blue Moon.
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