Jamie Carter

1 day ago | livescience.com | Jamie Carter

Two rare twilight pairings will grace the June 2025 sky as the moon first passes close to elusive Mercury and then gets stunningly close to Mars. Mercury is typically difficult to see and the conjunction between Mars and the moon will be particularly close, so both will be special sights for skywatchers. The moon and Mercury meet-up comes as the "Swift Planet," which orbits the sun every 88 days, emerges from our star's glare into the post-sunset sky between June 21 and 30.

1 day ago | forbes.com | Jamie Carter

The sun rises at Stonehenge, near Amesbury, in Wiltshire, southern England on June 21, 2023, during ... More the Summer Solstice festival, which dates back thousands of years, celebrating the longest day of the year. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images The June solstice marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest in the Southern Hemisphere. But what exactly causes this astronomical event?

1 day ago | forbes.com | Jamie Carter

Wisconsin's night sky glowing with the Northern Lights during a geomagnetic storm. (Photo by Ross ... More Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe Northern Lights may be visible in the U.S. this weekend, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, which is predicting aurora may be potentially glimpsed from 10 U.S. states on Saturday, June 7.

2 days ago | forbes.com.br | Jamie Carter

A “lua de morango” estará cheia na quarta-feira, 11 de junho de 2025. No entanto, ela poderá ser vista ao nascer da lua na terça-feira, 10 de junho. O satélite natural da Terra recebe esse nome devido ao amadurecimento dos morangos e outras frutas vermelhas na América do Norte durante junho. Esta também será a lua cheia mais baixa, não apenas do ano, mas desde 2006, por conta de um fenômeno que ocorre a cada 18,6 anos chamado de “grande parada lunar”.

2 days ago | forbes.com | Jamie Carter

Caption: Artist’s concept of the formation of Extreme Nuclear Transients (ENTs). W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko Astronomers have captured the most energetic explosions ever recorded in the universe since the big bang as massive stars get ripped apart by supermassive black holes. These Extreme Nuclear Transients, as they’ve been named, are a new class of rare and powerful cosmic explosions so bright they appear to release more energy than 100 supernovae (exploding stars).