<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2024/0407.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>April 7, 2024</title><item_date>04/02/2024 09:25:42 PM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/april-10-2024-BNS-h.jpg" alt="April 10 at 6 AM looking East -- close conjunction of Mars and Saturn"/></image><tags><tag>2024</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>Tomorrow, April 8, is the Great North American Solar Eclipse—a total solar eclipse visible in a strip starting in southern Mexico, going through the middle of the eastern half of the U.S. from Texas to New York, and ending in the southeastern part...</content_summary></item>