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THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

PLANET OF THE MONTH

JUPITER

Constellation: Aquarius Magnitude: -2.7 AM/PM: AM

Our Planet of the Month this issue is the largest planet in the Solar System: mighty Jupiter. Between mid-July and mid-August Jupiter will be visible all through the night. Rising in the ESE at around 22:00, looking like a blue-white ‘star’, it will then trace out a low arc across the southern sky during the night, eventually fading from view as the light of the approaching

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