An eclipse, a meteor shower, and more

Published: April 16, 2023, 5 a.m.

Mercury sinks sunward. Uranus goes with it. Venus plows past the Pleiades. Mars in Gemini. A Saturn-moon pairing. Jupiter still too close to the sun to see.

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A reminder about the hybrid solar eclipse.

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And a comet that last came close to the sun in 1861 provides the annual meteor shower called the April Lyrids. The shower peaks at the end of this week.