Step up to the Seven Stars - Linda's T'ai Chi

The Seven Sister and Venus in our view: In T’ai Chi, we perform a posture called “step up to the seven stars.” You will get to see this beautiful cluster if you are lucky.About half an hour after sunset tonight, tomorrow, and Friday, look toward the west for Venus gliding by the bright Pleiades star cluster. The Pleiades is known as the Seven Sisters and sits about 360 light-years away and looks like a dipper-shaped pattern of stars. For three nights only, sky watchers around the world can watch Venus barnstorm the cluster; the bright planet will appear to be only a quarter of a degree away from the cluster in the sky. Amazing. While close meetings of Venus and the Pleiades happen on average every year, this year Venus will edge especially close. The last encounter was in 2012. Look now because it will not happen again until 2028.