The Super Strawbery Moon: As darkness falls Tuesday, the year’s second supermoon will rise. June’s full moon, popularly known as the Strawberry Moon in North America for the time berries begin to ripen, will ascend in the eastern sky. (Catch how the moon is electric, particularly during a full moon.) Tomorrow and Friday nights, see a pairing of the moon and the brilliant blue-white star Spica in the southern sky. Over the next few two months, Northern Hemisphere skywatchers may see eerie, electric-blue clouds that are created by ice crystals forming around meteor dust falling into Earth’s atmosphere. Catch them about 45 minutes after sunset, where they appear as glowing, silver-blue wisps some 50 miles above Earth. — Andrew Fazekas
|
