The sky, March 22-27: Focus on M18 in star-rich region of Milky Way

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 22, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 22 Neptune reaches conjunction with the Sun at 7 A.M. EDT; it will reappear in mid-April in the morning sky. The Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit, at 7:40 A.M. EDT, when it will be 227,954 miles (366,856 […]