file Get Ready: Mars Reverses Its Course In the Sky Saturday

8 years 7 months ago #4812 by ben evans
this is kind of odd because the other night me, and my son were looking up at the stars, and we noticed a kind of an orange reddish star in the sky we both said at the same time: hey I bet that's mars lol. I wonder if it was??? I'm not sure as it was a bit on the larger side. is this possible???
www.space.com/32591-mars-reverses-course-saturday-retrograde-motion.html

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8 years 7 months ago #4814 by ??
That may have been the Antares, which was about 6 degrees due south of Mars at the time of the observation. Antares is red in color like Mars. Whereas Mars is a planet, Antares is a red super-giant star.

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8 years 7 months ago #4819 by ben evans
Hi CitizenQuasar, that's really cool.. I have never heard about "Antares" before, it sounds very interesting I am going to do some research on it. thank you for the info on this. ben...

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