At peak magnitude, seek out the goddess of love planet in a clear blue sky in the west-southwest during daylight hours, being extremely careful to keep eyes diverted from the sun.
"When moonlight hides all but the brightest stars, lightning bugs seem to prevail uninterrupted from dusk to dawn. This weekend and through Full Moon on Wednesday, July 13, a waxing gibbous moon drenches the summer landscape in alluring light that encourages walking and exploring outdoors."
Even though I have frequently stopped to “listen” to trees on some level as one living being to another, and encouraged students to do so, I am heralding new receptivity dawning in my consciousness as I observe these two hemlocks communicating.
The longest days of the year culminate next week when, from June 19–24, there are 15 hours and 16 minutes of daylight from sunrise to sunset. The remaining 8 hours and 44 minutes include morning and evening twilight.
We are about to witness the eclipse of a supermoon, the moon larger than regular size that occurs when our moon is closest to Earth, at perigee, in its monthly elliptical orbit.
The distance between Venus and Jupiter shrinks, and they'll be closest on April 30 and May 1. This planetary conjunction will not be seen again until 2039.
As Omicron carries on mutating, what do we have in our pharmaceutical arsenal to fight it? A heartening number of antivirals and treatments, reports Kessin.
Wake up in morning darkness to view the southeastern skyline ablaze with planet Venus rising. Visit the NASA website to get a clearer view of what goes on underneath the clouds of this gleaming orb.
Winter skies are the most inviting to naked-eye stargazers. Sirius, the brightest star in Earth’s skies, throws off magnificent flashes of full-spectrum colors.
While familiar constellations of the winter season travel the sky at night, the celestial dome at dawn is painted with spring and summer stars, a crescent moon, and planet Mars.
The week of November 1–6 is the best time all year to begin each day under heaven’s brightest stars and constellations — without waking up especially early.
