Which sky event are you looking forward to in the July sky? Do you have any questions or suggestions for our sky guide? Share with your community here in the comments below! About the authorRelated Posts Joe Rao Joe Rao is an esteemed astronomer who writes for Space.com,Sky & Telescope...
Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.
As Venus becomes visible from mid-Northern latitudes around mid-July, it joins the planet Mercury in the evening sky. Mercury, currently in the Eastern half of Cancer and shining at magnitude +0.4, has been an evening object since early July, visible towards the North-west for a short ...
Taurus, Gemini, Cancer and Leo Photographs showing the region of the night sky through which Mars passes from July 2024 to July 2025. The faintest stars visible in each photo are approximately as follows: Taurus photo: magnitude +8.0; Gemini photo: mag. +6.5; Cancer photo: mag. +8.2; ...
NASA has released a guide to the night sky this July pointing out that it is one of the best times of year to capture the Milky Way Galaxy.
Night Sky Map for December 2025: Rotation of the Stars The Big Dipper asterism is composed of the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major, the Greater Bear. The shape of the Big Dipper never varies, but its orientation changes constantly. ...
Venus will attain its greatest brilliancyin the evening sky on July 7 and in the morning sky on Sept. 19. From the end of June, on into the opening days of August in the evening sky, and from the last week of August through the final days of September, Venus will resemble a striking...
Also visible—on the screen if not in the mid-afternoon sky—is the constellation of Taurus. To position the stars and planets correctly on the screen, the program needs to combine information from several sources: Data and algorithms to derive the position of the stars and planets (...
In 2023, the timing of this meteor shower isn't ideal. It peaks just before the August 1 Full Moon. So, with the bright light in the sky on the two nights of the peak, it will reduce the number of meteors the average viewer will see....
The only evening conjunction of the period is between Jupiter and Venus on March 2nd 2023 in central Southern Pisces. It is ideally positioned for the Northern hemisphere due to the steep angle of the ecliptic in the Western sky after sunset at this time of year; it is rather less ...