Friday, June 06, 2025

Today: Night owls can see a pale yellow point of light rising in the east-southeast at 2 o’clock, better seen after 3 AM, our distant planetary cousin, Saturn. Much closer, and much brighter as well as more intense in its yellow hue, Venus will rise about an...

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Today: Looking to the southwest at 9:30, you can pan toward the west and see that Regulus has drawn noticeably closer to Mars. If you then pan toward the south, you can see that Moon has drawn close to the bright and blue star Spica, the Moon appearing to its right....

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Today: June finds the Milky Way just beginning to return to the skies in the east, surrounded by the three bright stars of the Summer Triangle. The Milky Way will climb a little higher each evening,, allowing the skies to feature increasingly better views of the faint...

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Today: New on the scene this month is an old favorite, the Summer Triangle. Near 10 o’clock, the brightest star of this trio, Vega, is in the east, about two thirds of the way up from the horizon. Deneb is much lower and in the northeast, to Vega’s left....

Monday, June 02, 2025

Today: In the western sky at sunset, the Moon’s position has shifted noticeably left of last night’s companion, the star Regulus. Meanwhile, Regulus is in nearly the same position relative to Mars, with Mars still in the west. But as Leo, the Lion’s...

Sunday, June 01, 2025

Today: At 9:30 in the evening sky, you can see Mars shining in the west. Just slightly up and to the left of Mars, you can also witness a very rendezvous between the Crescent Moon and the bright star Regulus, brightest of the stars in Leo. Regulus appears immediately...