1. Our annual 'Fundamentals of Stargazing' course at Cosmic Pursuits is now available - at a discount - to new students this year. Want to learn how to become an expert stargazer? This is the place to start...

 

2. Planetary alignments, zodiacal light, galaxy season, and the March equinox arrives. Here's what's going on in the Night Sky This Month.

 

3. Take a tour of the finer sights along the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way, one of the two major spiral arms of our fair galaxy. Lots to see, and lots to think about.

 

4. ‘It seems that I know how the universe originated’... the great Alan Lightman profiles Andre Linde, the man who comes as close as anyone to understanding the idea of infinity.

 

5. I thought I lived in a cold place (Calgary, Canada). This guy takes serious astrophotos from Lapland, where dark skies in the summer are non-existent, and winter skies are obscured by aurorae, clouds, and bitter cold. Pretty impressive.

 

6. Richard Wright's piece in Sky&Telescope has sage advice about taking images of galaxies from light-polluted urban and suburban skies.

 

7. Also in Sky&Telescope, the redoubtable Bob King takes you on a tour of Lepus, the Hare, the tiny constellation just south of Orion.

 

8. The latest on NASA's Perseverance lander on the surface of Mars, including images, video, and audio. A page that's well worth bookmarking and sharing.

 

9. Speaking of Mars, Elon Musk and others see the Red Planet as a potential refuge for humanity should things turn bad on Earth. But Mars, though it looks Earthlike, isn't a very pleasant place. In fact, it's a hellhole.

 

10. A Song for Stargazers: This month, a 'touch of elegance' as Andre Previn gets 'Lost in the Stars'.

 

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Clear Skies!

 

Brian Ventrudo

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