<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2026/0418.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>Bakersfield Night Sky — April 18, 2026</title><item_date>04/27/2026 12:02:19 PM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/april-18_22-2026-BNS-h.jpg" alt="A: April 22 looking high in southeast at 4 AM; B: Late April looking low in West at 8 PM"/></image><tags><tag>2026</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>Tickets for the last show of the spring season at the William M Thomas Planetarium, “Supervolcanoes” this Thursday, April 23 are still available through the Vallitix site. The crew of the Artemis II mission to the moon made it back to Earth safely...</content_summary></item>