Three planets await in the western twilight, though low Venus is a toughie. The crescent Moon passes them and, for the lucky, occults Mercury. After dark, Dog and Hare accompany Orion. And try for Kemble's Cascade.
Somewhere around the year 774 CE, the Sun erupted with extraordinary violence. High energy particles slammed into Earth’s atmosphere, triggering nuclear reactions that produced radioactive carbon-14. Trees across the planet absorbed this carbon and locked it into their wood, preserving a record of that ancient solar storm that scientists can still read today.
