The Sky Today on Thursday, June 26: Follow Mercury to the crescent Moon

The planet Mercury sits 3.5° to the left of a two-day-old crescent Moon in the evening sky tonight. At magnitude 0.1, Mercury is still bring and nearly 6° high in the west an hour after sunset. It’s now located in Cancer the Crab, having left Gemini behind.  With barely 4 percent of its eastern limbContinue reading “The Sky Today on Thursday, June 26: Follow Mercury to the crescent Moon”
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