THIS column comes to you from a very different place – Australia, where I have been accompanying a New Scientist Discovery Tour to see the hybrid solar eclipse visible from the west of the country. I have had two weeks of stargazing here, getting to know the sky from a new perspective.
No matter where you live in the world, Mars is taking a little stroll through Gemini this week, so it is a great time to get to know this lovely constellation with its prominent twin stars, Castor and Pollux, and take a look at the Red Planet at …