<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2024/0721.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>Bakersfield Night Sky — July 21, 2024</title><item_date>06/30/2024 09:38:36 PM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/july-30-2024-BNS-h.jpg" alt="Late July at 4 AM looking East - Southeast"/></image><tags><tag>2024</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>Mercury is still visible low in the west in the evening, a fist width at arm’s length above the horizon at 8:30 p.m. but it is quickly losing altitude over the next few days. It will be gone from the evening sky, lost in the evening twilight glow...</content_summary></item>