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    Venus skirts the Pleiades

    Mar 04, 2020 2 minutes
    by Bob King

    The brightest planet and the best-known naked-eye star cluster join forces on the evening of April 3 for a spectacular conjunction visible just about everywhere. That evening, for observers in Australasia, Venus will tiptoe through the outskirts of the Pleiades and nudge within about 15’

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