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 wisps of star clouds that form our view of the Milky Way. It remains visible in the evening skies through the winter.
Tuesday:
This evening at 9 PM presents a familiar sight. Venus and Jupiter are again suspended in the west-northwest. Things have shifted a little bit, so that Venus is now slightly above into the right of Jupiter. And this time they are even closer together, separated by only about one degree. This is, in fact, the closest these two planets will appear to one another until November of 2028.
Wednesday:
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. The third member is rising in the east, known as Altair. They will grace the evening skies through the rest of the year.