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★Stargazing: March 20
Spring arrives in the northern hemisphere today. It’s the vernal equinox, which marks the moment the Sun crosses the equator...More »
▶StarDate Radio: March 20 — Vernal Equinox
If it’s been a nasty winter where you are, then you have our sympathy. On the bright side, though, it’s...More »
▶StarDate Radio: March 19 — Dead Stars
Vulpecula, the fox, doesn’t have a lot of impressive stars. But it sure has a lot of impressive dead ones....More »
★Stargazing: March 19
Puppis, which represents the deck of the ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts, stands well to the left and...More »
★Stargazing: March 18
Vulpecula, the fox, is a faint constellation. Unless you live away from city lights, you might not see any of...More »
▶StarDate Radio: March 18 — Vulpecula
Vulpecula, the fox, is a faint constellation. Unless you live away from city lights, you might not see any of...More »
★Stargazing: March 17
Cancer, the crab, is well up in the east at nightfall and passes high overhead later on. Although it is...More »
▶StarDate Radio: March 17 — Declining Birth Rate
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a vast collection of hundreds of billions of stars. And the population is...More »
★Stargazing: March 16
M82, one of the most vigorous galaxies around, is in Ursa Major, the big bear. It stands to the upper...More »
▶StarDate Radio: March 16 — Solar Rain
Big storms bring big rains at this time of year. It rains on the Sun, too, mainly during its own...More »
★Stargazing: March 15
Messier 3, an old, giant star cluster, ascends the eastern sky tonight, to the upper left of the bright yellow-orange...More »
▶StarDate Radio: March 15 — Messier 3
A star cluster with a lot of deceptively young-looking stars ascends the eastern sky tonight. It’s to the upper left...More »
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2023 Sky Almanac
This year marks the golden anniversary of StarDate magazine, so we’re celebrating by describing the progress and discoveries of the past 50 years of astronomy, along with some tidbits about our own history.
