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THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

PLANET OF THE MONTH

Mars is a morning object this month, and gets easier to see as the days pass from May into June Mars is famously known as the Red Planet because when it’s visible at its best – high in a dark sky – its colour is very striking, although it shines with more of a bright-orange hue than a garnet-red one. Later this year Mars will indeed be a splendid sight, an eye-catchingly bright jewel gleaming in the evening sky, but

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