This month’s planets
Planet of the month
omparing how Mars looks now to how it looked last autumn, when it was at opposition and much closer to the Earth, is like comparing a candle to a car headlight, but the Red Planet is still an easy naked-eye object, and it’s in a very interesting and busy part of the night sky, too. As March draws to a close, Mars is shining at magnitude +1.2, making it still as
