What’s Up
There’s a lot to look forward to in this week’s night skies. Venus shines super bright in the early evening western sky, joined by the crescent Moon on April 18. Around that same time, Saturn, Mars, Mercury, and Neptune are all near each other in the pre-dawn east, very low to the horizon just before sunrise. Overnight between April 21 and 22, the medium-strength Lyrid meteor shower peaks. On April 22, the Moon will be near very bright Jupiter, which shines high in the west in the early evening all week. And on April 23, in the early evening west, super dim, bluish Uranus will be near super bright Venus as well as the faint stars of the Pleiades star cluster, a great sight if you have binoculars or a telescope. Learn more about all of these exciting night sky things in our April stargazing guide.