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increase font size What’s up in May: So much to follow above as spring continues to bloom on earth Expect a close conjunction, three planets in the night sky, the asteroid Vesta in Leo, comet Atlas near the Big Dipper, a good meteor shower and the Eta Aquarids on May 5. By BERNIE REIM Share A cormorant sits on the branches of the trees leaning over the Kennebec River in Waterville on Monday as the full moon rises over Winslow. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel The month of May is named after the Greek goddess of the earth, Maia. May Day, or the Gaelic festival of Beltane, marks the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Our landscape is now transforming itself once again into myriad and subtle hues of green as our hemisphere of the earth is slowly and continually tilting more and more toward the sun and our days are getting warmer and longer as a result.

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