GETTY IMAGES X2, ESO ILLUSTRATIONS: PETE LAWRENCE, DANIEL BRIGHT
The planet Mars is becoming a major player in the night sky, outshone only by the Moon, when it’s about, and Jupiter. It’s visible, bright and distinctly orange in colour, above the eastern horizon at 11pm on 1 November, at 10pm mid-November, and at 9pm on 1 December. Mars is currently moving against the stars of Taurus the Bull, and this places it near two bright and similarly orange-hued stars, Aldebaran in Taurus and Betelgeuse in Orion.