(Continued from page 18)

over 25 times. Jupiter is the fourth-brightest celestial body to light up the heavens, after the sun, moon and the planet Venus. But Venus won't rise until the wee hours before dawn, in the eastern sky.
• Aldebaran and the Pleaides cluster return to the same place in the sky about 4 minutes earlier every night, and Jupiter stays in front of the constellation Taurus until late June 2013. The moon, on the other hand, rises an average 50 minutes later daily. So several days from now, after the moon has left Taurus, use the blazing planet Jupiter to find the constellation Taurus, and to view Taurus the Bull and the beautiful Pleiades cluster in a moon-free sky!
•