           APOD: 2018 March 14 - Night Sky Highlights: March to May

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
 fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a
                           professional astronomer.

                                2018 March 14
                                      [2]
                      Night Sky Highlights: March to May
               Illustration Credit & Copyright: Universe2go.com

Explanation: What might you see [3] in the night sky over the next few months?
The featured graphic gives a few highlights. Viewed as a clock [4]  face
centered at the bottom, sky events in March fan out toward the left, April
toward the top, and May toward the right. Objects relatively close to Earth
[5]  are illustrated, in general, as nearer to the cartoon figure with the
telescope at the bottom center -- although almost everything pictured [6]  can
be seen without a telescope. Sky highlights [7]  this season include a bright
Venus [8]  in the evening sky during March, the Lyrids meteor shower [9]
during April, and Jupiter [10]  entering the evening sky during May. As true
in every season, the International Space Station [11] (ISS [12] ) can be
sometimes be found [13] drifting across your sky if you know just when and
where to look.

                    News: Stephen Hawking Dies at 76 [14]
                      Tomorrow's picture: pub quiz [15]

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    Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [27] (MTU [28] ) & Jerry Bonnell [29]
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Site notes:
  [1] archivepix.html
  [2] image/1803/March2May_U2G_2500.jpg
  [3]
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/video/
jpl-20180301-whatsuf-0001-180cc.mp4
  [4] ap171107.html
  [5] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth
  [6] ap170924.html
  [7] https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/jpl/whats-up-march-2018
  [8] ap160414.html
  [9] ap170427.html
  [10] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/
  [11] ap110309.html
  [12] ap161105.html
  [13] https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
  [14] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/obituaries/stephen-hawking-dead.html
  [15] ap180315.html
  [16] ap180313.html
  [17] archivepix.html
  [18] lib/apsubmit2015.html
  [19] lib/aptree.html
  [20] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  [21] calendar/allyears.html
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  [23] lib/edlinks.html
  [24] lib/about_apod.html
  [25] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180314
  [26] ap180315.html
  [27] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  [29] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  [30] http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  [31] lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  [32] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
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