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Anthony Wood

Mars joins the Spring Triangle this week: Here’s when and how to see it

A dark background with a couple of dots on it.

Look to the west on the nights following June 18 to see Mars sweep past the bright star Regulus to enter the Spring Triangle - a formation of three prominent stellar bodies that are visible as spring transitions to summer in the northern hemisphere.

Each of the three massive stars that make up the Spring Triangle - Spica, Arcturus and Regulus - belongs to a different constellation in the night sky.

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