We've spent today looking across the universe, so let's wrap it up with something a little closer to home. Keep an eye on the skies for the Buck Supermoon, our next full Moon, on July 13:
A full moon rises over Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles in August 2021. Credit: NASA/Preston DychesThe next full moon is the Buck Supermoon, also called the Thunder Moon, and the Hay or Mead Moon.
For Theravada Buddhists, this full moon is Asalha Puja, also known as Dharma Day or Esala Poya, an important festival celebrating the Buddha's first sermon. Since this is also called the Thunder Moon, a quick note on lightning safety. Most of the lightning that strikes the ground arcs from the negatively charged bottom of the storm to the ground underneath the storm. Much rarer is positive lightning, which arcs from the top of a thunderstorm to strike the ground up to eight miles away. Positive lightning can sometimes strike areas where the sky is clear .
By the morning of Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, , as morning twilight begins at 5:14 a.m. EDT, four of the five visible planets will appear spread across the sky, with Saturn at 14 degrees above the southwestern horizon, Jupiter at 51 degrees above the south-southwestern horizon, Mars at 55 degrees above the east-southeastern horizon, and Venus at 5 degrees above the east-northeastern horizon. The full moon will set on the west-southwestern horizon below Saturn.
On Saturday afternoon, July 16, 2022, the planet Mercury will pass on the far side of the Sun as seen from the Earth, called superior conjunction. Because Mercury orbits inside of the orbit of Earth it will be shifting from the morning sky to the evening sky and will begin emerging from the glow of the dusk on the western horizon sometime after July 23 .Tuesday morning, July 19, 2022, the bright planet Jupiter will appear near the waning gibbous Moon.
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