The bull casts his ruddy eye — the star Aldebaran — on some interesting goings-on in the dawn sky. Venus, the enchanting "morning star," is close to Aldebaran early in the month, with Mars huddling closer to it later on. Mars and Aldebaran show the same orange color, and are almost identically bright this month. The Moon joins the lineup for a few days. Another orange pinpoint, the star Antares, highlights the evening as the center of Scorpius, the scorpion. The summer Milky Way arcs across the sky at an earlier hour each night.

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