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- Jupiter will shine as the 4th-brightest object in the sky, after the sun, the moon and the planet Venus. It’ll be the brightest starlike object visible for most of the night (after Venus sets in the evening sky).
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Starting around now (early June 2024), you should begin to notice Jupiter in the morning twilight. Jupiter is our sky’s 2nd-brightest planet. It’s now ascending in the east before the sunrise, a little farther from the sun each day. It’s brighter than all the stars! It won’t reach opposition – that’s when Jupiter will be most opposite the sun and b...
The planet Venus – brightest planet visible in Earth’s sky – orbits one step inward from Earth and so always stays near the sun in our sky. It’s usually up in the east before sunrise, or up in the west after sunset. But, since late April, Venus has been nohwere to be seen. That’s because it’s now traveling on the far side of the sun from Earth. It ...
In the month of May, the flat plane of our Milky Way galaxy lies nearly as flat around our horizon as it can. In other words, if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, the plane of your horizon in the evening is (most vividly for the year) in the same plane as the Milky Way. So you can’t peer into the edgewise view of our galaxy until later at night, s...
Join EarthSky’s Marcy Curran for a 1-minute video preview of the moon phases – and dates when the moon will visit planets – for the month of June 2024.
The instant of 1st quarter moon will fall at 5:18 UTCon June 14 15, 2024 (12:18 a.m. CDT). A 1st quarter moon rises around noon your local time and sets around midnight. Watch for it high in the sky at sundown.
The moon will reach apogee – its farthest distance from Earth in its elliptical orbit around Earth – at 14 UTC(9 a.m. CDT) on June 14, 2024, when it’s 251,081 miles (404,076 kilometers) away.
Mercury moves behind the sun on June 14, 2024. This point in its orbit is called superior conjunction. It’ll emerge in the evening skythe last few days of June. Our charts are mostly set for the northern half of Earth. To see a precise view – and time – from your location, try Stellarium Online.
On the evenings of June 15 and 16, 2024, the fat waxing gibbous moon will hang near the bright star Spica in Virgo the Maiden. They’ll rise before sunset and be visible through several hours after midnight. Locations including Kazakhstan, western Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will see the moon pass in front of – or occult – Spica around 18 UT...
On June 19, 2024, the bright red star Antares in Scorpius the Scorpion will lie close to the fat waxing gibbous. Also, sky watchers in locations including Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia, Solomon Islands and Fiji will see the moon pass in front of – or occult – Antares near 11 UTCon June 20. Other locations may see Antares very close to the lim...
The full moon will lie near the Teapot – an asterism in Sagittariusthe Archer – on the evening of June 21, 2024. You can catch the moon and the Teapot until dawn.
Jun 9, 2022 · Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are easily visible in the predawn sky in June 2022. Look south 45 minutes before sunrise.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The rare alignment of five naked-eye...
Jul 1, 2022 · The moon visited each of the planets in the lineup in late June. The waning gibbous and crescent moon passed Saturn on the 18th, Jupiter on the 21st, Mars on the 22nd, Venus on the 26th and ...
Jun 24, 2022 · In a clear sky, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn can be seen shining before dawn. It's a special opportunity to see Mercury, which is usually obscured from view by the Sun's bright light.
Which planets are visible tonight? Find out in our month-by-month guide to which planets you can see in the night sky throughout 2024.
Jun 16, 2022 · A diagram showing the locations of five bright planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, in the predawn sky on June 17, 2022. (Image credit: Starry Night) A rare parade of planets is...
