See Mars Align With Starry Twins Early Sunday

Early-bird stargazers with clear weather on Sunday can enjoy interesting predawn spectacle involving two bright stars and Mars, the Red Planet. Mars is currently rising in the east-northeast just before 3:30 a.m. your local time. The Earth is very slowly catching up with Mars in its orbit around the sun, yet the Red Planet has not brightened much at all since early July. Mars remains at a magnitude +1.6; closer to the ranking of a second magnitude object. Astronomers measure night-sky object bri...