FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
If evening skies clear in the next week or so, we’ll see a nice conjunction of the planet Mars (left) with the bright star Regulus (right). They will make a striking couple, less than a degree apart by this weekend. Look just to the left of due west after dark and halfway up the sky.
Orangey Mars is slightly brighter than blue-white Regulus. The star, actually a four-star system 77 light years away, is the lion’s heart and the brightest star in the constellation Leo.