June skygazing: A visit to Venus, longest day of the year, sweet summer moon, and asteroids
Venus and Jupiter will pass within 1.6 degrees, and June also brings the summer solstice, the Strawberry Moon and Asteroid Day.
- On June 9, Venus and Jupiter will reach a close conjunction, appearing within 1.5 degrees of each other as an extremely bright "double star" visible to the naked eye.
- The summer solstice arrives on June 21 at 3:25 a.m., marking the "longest day" when the sun reaches its highest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
- June's full "Strawberry Moon" rises on June 29 as a "micromoon" at apogee, about 252,360 miles from Earth, appearing smaller and dimmer than usual.
- International Asteroid Day on June 30 commemorates the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia, Russia, as the United Nations designated day to raise awareness about asteroid impact risks.
- June falls squarely in Milky Way Season, with the Grand Canyon Star Party running June 6 to 13 along the South Rim, where stargazers can use Stellarium Mobile to track deep-sky objects.
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