If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, your earliest sunrises of the year are happening around now. Southern Hemisphere? Your earliest sunsets are around now. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunrises-before-june-solstice-jupiter-venus…
Tag: summer solstice
4 amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece
The ancients made some jaw-dropping discoveries without modern technology. For example, the size of the moon. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/4-amazing-astronomical-discoveries-ancient-greece…
Cancer? Here’s your constellation
Here’s how to find the constellation Cancer in your sky. Plus Cancer’s place in sky history, lore and science. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/cancer-heres-your-constellation…
Westward shift of Orion and all the stars
As Earth makes its grand tour around the sun each year, the constellations all shift westward in our sky. Orion is a good one to notice. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/the-westward-shift-of-orion-and-all-the-stars…
What is the gegenschein?
The sun’s counterglow – or gegenschein – is kind of a stargazers’ legend. What is it, and how can you see it? Erwin Matys and Karoline Mrazek of Project Nightflight explain. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/definition-what-is-the-gegenschein…
Gemini? Here’s your constellation
The constellation Gemini, with its two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, shines prominently in winter and spring night skies of the Northern Hemisphere. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/gemini-heres-your-constellation…
Latest sunrises (north) and sunsets (south) in early January
Shortest and longest days at the solstices, but latest sunrises (Northern Hemisphere) and sunsets (Southern Hemisphere) in early January. Nature is subtle on a tilted Earth, pursuing an elliptical orbit around the sun. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/latest-sunrises-for-midnorthern-latitudes-in-early-january…
Solstice tale of two cities
December solstice sunrise comes at the same time for St. Augustine, Florida, and New York City. But St. Augustine has an hour more of daylight than New York. Here’s why. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/solstice-tale-of-two-cities…
Longest days accompany December solstice
Wait, what? Yes. In December, a day – a whole cycle of day and night – is about half a minute longer than the average 24 hours. That’s true for the entire globe. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/longest-days-of-year-accompany-the-december-solstice…
Moon and Regulus on December 16
On December 16, 2019, you might catch the moon and star Regulus – Heart of the Lion in the constellation Leo – ascending in the east before your bedtime. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-couples-up-with-regulus…