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what's up for June Jupiter's up all

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night while Mercury and Mars decide to

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get close and the moon reveals its

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tilted orbit Jupiter is at its biggest

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and brightest this month rising at dusk

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and remaining visible all night the

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solar system's largest planet is a

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brilliant jewel to the naked eye but it

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looks fantastic through binoculars or a

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small telescope which will allow you to

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spot the four largest moons and maybe

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even glimpse a hint of the banded clouds

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that encircle the planet and if this

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leaves you yearning for a closer look

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these gorgeous views from NASA's Juno

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spacecraft which is currently orbiting

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Jupiter make the planet feel almost

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close enough to touch in mid-june Mars

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and Mercury appear ultra close together

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immediately after sunset for two days on

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June 17th and 18th you'll need a pretty

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clear view of the western horizon to

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catch them as the pair will be only a

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few degrees above it on the farther

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north you are the lower they'll be but

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it should be spectacular if you can

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manage it in the middle of the month

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from about June 14th to the 19th look

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for the moon to form a beautiful line up

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in the sky with Jupiter and Saturn that

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changes each night as the moon moves in

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its orbit around Earth while you're out

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marveling at this trio there's a really

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neat astronomy observation you can

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attempt yourself just by paying

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attention to the moon's movement from

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night to night okay imagine a line

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passing through Jupiter and Saturn like

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so this more or less represents the

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plane in which earth and the other

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planets orbit the Sun think of it as a

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big disk and you're looking out to the

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edge of the disk from within it look

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closely and you can see that the moon

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doesn't move along the same line from

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night to night it moves along its own

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path crossing the Jupiter Saturn line as

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it moves between the two giant planets

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on the 18th this separate path shows

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that the moon's orbit is slightly tilted

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with respect to Earth's orbit around the

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Sun this tilt in the moon's orbit is why

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an eclipse is kind of a special event

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eclipses occur when the moon passes into

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Earth's shadow or when Earth passes into

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the moon's shadow with the moon orbiting

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Earth every month you might think there

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would be a lunar and solar eclipse every

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month as well with the Sun Moon and

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Earth forming a nice straight line but

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instead it's tilted orbit means the moon

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misses

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this lineup most months crossing Earth's

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orbital plane at the right time for a

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lineup with the Sun only a couple of

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times a year there's still a lot to

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learn about the moon and science is one

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of the reasons NASA has plans for both

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robots and humans to continue exploring

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it into the future here are the phases

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of the Moon for June you can catch up on

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all of NASA's current and future

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missions at nasa.gov I'm Preston dykes