Don’t Miss the Star-Studded June Sky: Mars, Venus, Spica, Arcturus, and the Summer Triangle! — Mars and Venus, Summer Stars |
– The crescent Moon makes a lovely grouping with Venus and Mars tonight. Find them in the west following sunset.– June Solstice. For the north, it’s the longest day of the year, as the Sun traces its highest, longest path across the sky. The situation is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, where it’s the shortest day of the year, during the cool months of winter.– Mars and Venus draw nearer each evening in the western sky following sunset. The pair will appear a bit lower in the sky each night.
On June 1st and 2nd, Mars will be in the Beehive. The Red Planet passes through the Beehive Cluster, also known as Praesepe or M44. It’s a well-known open cluster of stars located around 600 light-years away in the constellation Cancer, the crab. The pairing will make for great viewing through binoculars or a small telescope, with a sparkle of faint stars surrounding the rust-colored disk of Mars.
Facing south on June evenings, the bright stars Northern Hemisphere observers will notice are Spica and Arcturus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Orange giant Arcturus is the brightest star in Bootes, the herdsman. It’s the fourth brightest star in the sky. It’s much closer than Spica, at a distance of about 37 light years. It’s also quite an old star, compared to our Sun, at an age of 7-8 billion years.
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