FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS"
Jane Buxton Brown, of Baltimore, is one of many who’ve asked me: “Tonight, outside the Hopkins Club, 12 adults wondered what the bright object on the right side of the moon was. Venus, or a star that none of us could name?”
The moon has moved on, but giant Jupiter continues to gleam, high in the southeast each evening this fall. A month past opposition, it’s making its best appearance of the year. Aim your binoculars at it and count its Galilean moons, lined up on either side.