It’s now the third brightest object in the sky—after the Sun and the Moon. However, its dazzling performance as the bright “Evening ... minutes after sunset just as a deep blue twilight ...

Few things make us stop to appreciate the natural world as much as a beautiful sunset. A display of reds, oranges and pinks spreading across the evening ... is why the sky is blue," he said.

9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees from the sun, Mercury can be seen at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes after sunset, about 3 degrees up and 15 degrees left of due ...