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This month’s planets

Venus is our Planet of the Month this month not just because it will be a beautiful ‘evening star’ in the sky, and not because it will be dazzlingly bright, but because there will be so much happening around it. As soon as the Sun sets at the end of March you should start looking for Venus in the west, and it won’t take you too long to find it – it’s so bright this month. In fact it’s about as bright as

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