This Creative Commons image shows 12P/Pons–Brooks, a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years which will be visible in the week leading up to the total solar eclipse on April 8. NASA said the bright comet will be visible during the eclipse due to the unusual coincidence that the comet’s return to the inner solar system places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the sun during that time.

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Local nonprofits Bangor Beautiful and Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness are teaming up to create a new piece of public art this summer that will serve the dual purpose of bringing color to downtown Bangor, while also making it a safer place to be a pedestrian. It’ll be located on the pavement at the intersection of Main and Hammond streets, near Wabanaki Public Health’s offices at 6 Central St. Though the mural’s design isn’t finalized yet, it will be created by Wabanaki artists and likely include images of waves, native animals and crops. Studies have shown that art on pavement helps slow traffic and reduce pedestrian crashes.

“State law and policy allows questions to appear on the ballot even though they may not later pass constitutional muster. This is a practice that lawmakers should strongly reconsider.”

Editorial: Answer constitutional questions before a referendum goes to voters