This Week’s Night Sky: See Mercury Take Flight
What better way to celebrate International Dark Sky Week than with a sighting of the elusive planet closest to the sun.
Celebrated since 2003, International Dark Sky Week (IDSW) is an annual initiative that draws attention to the problems of light pollution and promotes ways to mitigate them. It’s held from April 4 to 10 in connection with Global Astronomy Month. Check out the IDSW web site for ways to explore your local skies through cool citizen science projects, and learn how you can raise awareness of light pollution and help conserve your night sky.
Even from the dark countryside, the super-faint lights are sometimes mistaken for the glow of the Milky Way or a distant city just over the horizon. The zodiacal lights are actually created as sunlight reflects off countless interplanetary particles scattered along the plane of the
