
Track down Enceladus the night of March 12/13, when this dim moon passes near Tethys, which glows 1.5 magnitudes brighter. Astronomy: Roen Kelly
For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, March means that spring is in the air. The evening sky mirrors this season of rebirth. Mercury begins the month lost in the Sun’s glare but quickly emerges for its finest evening appearance of 2011.