Err, rather, astronomy. :) Well, actually ):.

A great big

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Crescent moon and “stars” that look like a frowny face. Mooooooom, the universe is making faces at me!

But we had fun watching them and talking about stars versus planets, created light versus reflected light. Jupiter and Venus are paired near the moon again this evening. We missed the February convergence, but were prepared for this one.

The last few nights have been filled with naturewalks, discussions about stars, and moons, and planets, and comets and meteors; all manner of universal matter. Finally, tonight we saw two planets peeking at us as we sat on the car trunk as the clouds to cleared from our view.

Get up, get out there, just past sunset. A pretty show that won’t be back in the southwest skies for a while.

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