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July Astronomy: Brilliant Heavenly Bodies Light Up the Summer Sky—Including All Five Bright Planets

It’s planetfest, with five bright planets in July’s evening hours! Three of them far outshine all stars. (But early in the month, you must wait until after nightfall to see Mars.) Venus, the brightest, gleams at magnitude -4.1 to -4.3 in the west at dusk, and sets more than two hours after sunset. Jupiter glows […]

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