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The Strawberry Moon is coming. How to see this record-breaking Moon meet Mars rival

The Strawberry Moon is the name given to the full Moon in June, the sixth full Moon of the year, rising on 11 June 2025 at 22:46 BST. What's more, the Strawberry Moon in 2025 will be joined in the night sky by bright red star Antares, which is known as the 'rival of Mars'. And this is the lowest full Moon of the year, as well as one of the farthest from the Sun. Strawberry Moon rising over

June’s full ‘Strawberry Moon’ illuminates the night sky next week: Here’s how to see it

Don't miss the 2025 full "Strawberry Moon" when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10. A full "Strawberry Moon" reveals its brilliant colors in the night sky (Image credit: Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This month's full "Strawberry Moon" graces the night sky on June 11, putting on a spectacular show as the fully-lit disk of Earth's n

Arietids – most active daytime meteor shower – around June 7

Join EarthSky’s Marcy Curran for a video preview of the daytime Arietid meteor shower. The mornings around June 7, 2025, are the best time to watch for Arietid meteors in the dark sky before dawn. June 2025 daytime meteor shower … the Arietids Most meteor showers are easy to observe. Just find a dark sky, and look up! But what about meteor showers that happen in the daytime, when the sun

NOAA issues a ‘Severe’ solar storm alert, auroras expected across most of the U.S.

At 9:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time on June 1, 2025, instruments registered a geomagnetic K-index of 8, creeping toward 9 – a level rarely reached outside the most intense solar episodes. Such readings signal strong electric currents racing through Earth’s magnetic shield – the first sign that a severe solar storm disturbance has arrived. Power operators, satellite

A ‘smiley face’ will appear in the night sky on May 29: Here’s how to see it

The universe will smile back at us on May 29, thanks to an uncanny cosmic alignment The moon will team up with Castor and Pollux to create a smiling face in the night sky on May 29. (Image credit: Starry Night) A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29. Skywatchers in the U.S. will find the cosm

New moon of May 2025 leaves the night sky dark to see the summer constellations tonight

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations will be rising. An illustration of the new moon of May 2025 near the sun on May 27. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and

Young moon, Venus, Mercury on May 23, 24 and 25

At evening dusk – May 23, 24 and 25, 2020 – find an unobstructed horizon in the direction of sunset, and watch for the young moon, plus the planets Mercury and Venus, to pop out in the deepening twilight. From many places worldwide, it’ll be tough to spot the whisker-thin lunar crescent beneath Venus and Mercury on May 23, because the moon will be out only briefly after sunset. It’ll be

The moon and Venus kick off Memorial Day weekend with a lovely conjunction early on May 23

For North Americans, this is an eye-catching sight, visible even from brightly lit cities. See the moon shine between Venus and Saturn on May 23. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) Should your local weather forecast suggest that Friday morning — the start of the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend — will be fair and clear, it will be well worth setting your alarm cloc

Cosmic Magic: Don’t Miss the Moon, Venus, and Saturn Aligning This May 23

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere). Check my main feed for more in-depth articles on stargazing, astronomy, eclipses and more. The Night Sky This Week: May 19-25, 2025 As the moon continues to wane from being full last week, the night skies darken e

The Sky This Week from May 21 to 23: Venus meets the morning Moon

ednesday, May 21 Virgo the Maiden is draped across the southern sky late this evening, offering excellent views of a famous galaxy within its bounds: M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy. Glowing at magnitude 8, this edge-on spiral is some 30 million light-years from Earth. It boasts a thin, dark dust lane that blocks light across its center, which has earned it the name Sombrero. This stru