This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 22 – 30

Venus is a super-thin crescent as it plunges down to the sunset horizon this week. Bring out the telescope and/or binoculars. Mercury, also in the western evening twilight, is a tiny “half Moon” with a much less intense surface brightness.

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