March 3 - Don't Miss Venus and Mercury, Top Stories

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Use Venus to find Mercury in March Will you catch Venus and Mercury - the 2 planets orbiting closer to the sun than Earth - after sunset this weekend? If you do, let us know! Some black holes erase your past  You can't survive a passage into a black hole ... or can you? What's the most distant human object?  The most distant human object is now over 13 billion miles (21 billion km) from Earth. How many stars can you see?  On a clear night with no moon ... how many stars? March guide to the bright planets  Whoa! Cool. You can see all 5 bright planets this month. Top 4 keys to mastering moon phases  The most important key is to think of the moon as a world in space, with a day and night side. When is the next Leap Year?  If there were no leap years, eventually February would be a summer month for the Northern Hemisphere. Almost-real-time map of global fishing "Until now we didn't really know where people were fishing in vast swaths of the ocean …"

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Use Venus to find Mercury in March Venus and Mercury will remain close enough together on the sky's dome to fit inside a typical binocular field of 5 degrees for the first 3 weeks of March 2018.

See it! 1st March full moon The full moon photos are still coming in. Dennis Schoenfelder in Rio Grande County, Colorado captured one Friday morning and wrote: "I was taking a moonset picture when I was photo-bombed by a Sandhill Crane who, undoubtedly arrived early for next week's crane festival."  More photos here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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