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Explanation:
What's
up
in the sky this summer?
The featured graphic gives a few highlights for Earth's northern hemisphere.
Viewed as a clock face centered at the bottom, early summer sky events fan out toward
the left, while late summer events are projected toward the right.
Objects relatively close to
Earth
are illustrated, in general, as nearer to the cartoon figure with the telescope at
the bottom center -- although almost everything pictured can be
seen
without a telescope.
Highlights of this summer's sky include that
Jupiter will be visible after sunset during June,
while
Saturn
will be visible after sunset during August.
A close grouping of the
Moon, Venus and the bright star
Aldebaran
will occur during mid-July.
In early August, the
Perseids meteor shower peaks.
Surely the most
famous pending astronomical event
occurring this summer, though, will be a
total eclipse of the Sun
visible over a thin
cloud-free swath across the USA on 21 August.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: night sky
Publications with words: night sky
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