A new moon on April 11 and a meteor shower usher in the month of April, a month that takes its name from Latin “aperio,” meaning “to open,” as many plants were blooming or opening in the Roman world at this time. The Lyrid meteor brings its sparkling music to the sky from April 16 to 22, pea

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