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Look Up to See Two Bright ‘Celestial Triangles’ This Month

The winter sky has some brightly lit star patterns visible this month, including a triangle featuring Mars at one of its points, making it worthwhile to brave the winter temperatures for stargazing. These shapes aren’t constellations, but asterisms: groups of stars that form recognizable patterns but that don’t have official locations from the International Astronomical Union. The Big and Little…