Mercury marches into the evening. Venus approaches the Pleiades. Jupiter heads toward the sun. Full moon.

Do what you can to preserve dark skies. Light pollution isn't just ruining astronomy. It's bad for nature.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of Neptune that some describe as ghostly. A chemical compound detected near the center of the Milky Way galaxy is partly responsible for a fruit's taste. Jupiter disappears into the sunset and has a close call with Mercury along the way. Venus passes by Uranus. Mars passes by Castor's feet.

Mercury joins Jupiter and Venus in the evening. Equinox is this week. The sun isn't entering Aries now, no matter what you've been told. A daytime occultation of Venus. And Ceres is at opposition.

Venus dominates the early evening. Mars remains up until around midnight. Jupiter and Vesta are close. Mercury's at superior conjunction.

The anniversary of the first detailed picture of the moon is coming up. That was more than 180 years ago.

Mercury's already in retreat in the morning. Venus marches more into the evening. There's still time to see Jupiter while it begins a long goodbye to the evening sky. And learn what is meant by the different ways of measuring how close two objects are when they're in conjunction.

Venus and Jupiter will appear very close this week.

Saturn relieves Mercury of morning duty.

Venus keeps climbing the evening sky.

Cetus the sea monster sets.

At the heart of Leo is a star shaped like an egg.

Venus has a super close conjunction with Neptune this week. This is a good time to look at them in a telescope.

And a beast who appears in fables going back thousands of years somehow never got a constellation until somewhat recently. There's a unicorn on the celestial dome now.

Most of the planet watching is in the evening this week.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passes by Mars in our sky.

Learn about how someone discovered that the sun emits radio waves and why that was kept a secret for a few years.

Saturn sinks toward sunset. Venus climbs toward Jupiter. And a comet crosses the sky.