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what's up for June our sister planet

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Venus dazzles while Jupiter moves in for

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its closest appearance of the year hello

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and welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones with

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California Jupiter will be at

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its biggest and brightest this month and

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offers great views through August with

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your telescope you can see cloud bands

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and the Great Red Spot this is really a

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gigantic storm within the clouds that

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astronomers have been seeing for over

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300 years through a telescope the red

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spot will look ready pink and even a bit

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smudgy but it's definitely worth looking

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for you should also be able to pick out

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Jupiter's four largest moons two of them

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IO and Europa pass in front of Jupiter

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on june sixteenth you may even be able

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to see their tiny black circular shadows

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across the planet many nasa spacecraft

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have studied Jupiter and its moons the

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Galileo spacecraft orbited Jupiter from

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1995 to 2003 one of the missions many

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discoveries was strong evidence that the

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moon Europa has a saltwater ocean

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beneath it's icy surface Venus also

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pulls out all the stops this month

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appearing high and bright alongside many

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objects in the sky

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our sister planet skims by a swarm of

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stars called the beehive star cluster by

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mid-month the crescent moon joins the

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lineup below Venus for the months grand

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finale Saturn and Venus draw closer and

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closer to one another they will appear

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so close that they'll fit in one eye

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piece view next month will offer some

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summertime viewing tips and talk about

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observing the moon to learn more about

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all of NASA's missions visit www.cash I

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charts and email questions to me at

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education JPL nasa gov just click on the