PLANET OF THE MONTH
Jupiter is our planet of the month because it has some fascinating company in the night sky, and also because it will be ideally placed for everyone to observe, whether they’re looking at it with the naked eye or zooming in on it with a telescope. Jupiter will spend the whole of our observing period in the rather star-starved constellation of Aries, an unremarkable spray of stars to the west of Taurus. At the start of
