This November, Saturn and Jupiter are the only bright planets lighting the darkness between the stars.

In the evening sky, Saturn shines in the southeast at nightfall. Just west of Saturn you may spot four stars that form the Y-shaped Water Jar of the dim constellation Aquarius, the water bearer. The constellation represents a youth named Ganymede, who was carried to Mount Olympus by Zeus to be cupbearer to the gods. Ganymede is also the largest of Jupiter’s moons.

Above Saturn, find the Great Square of Pegasus. Then look above the Great Square for M- or W-shaped Cassiopeia. With dark skies, you may see a fuzzy patch of light between Cassiopeia and the Great Square; this is Andromeda, the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

In the east, the bright winter stars are slipping into the e

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