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what's up for june

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a planetary breakup

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prime viewing for a well-known star

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cluster and the constellation lyra

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the gathering of four naked eye planets

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we've been enjoying in the morning sky

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for the past few months including

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several close conjunctions is beginning

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to break up

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over the next few months saturn mars

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jupiter and venus will appear

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increasingly spread out across the

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morning sky so much so that venus and

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saturn will make their exits as morning

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objects for most observers by september

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look for this increasingly spaced out

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planetary procession in june and note

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that the crescent moon jumps into the

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lineup on the morning of the 23rd

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june is an excellent time to observe one

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of the best known globular star clusters

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m13 also known as the hercules cluster

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globular clusters are spherical

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collections of stars tightly packed

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together in their centers

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m13 itself contains several hundred

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thousand stars

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globular clusters are also extremely old

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the stars in m13 are thought to be

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around 12 billion years old which is

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approaching the age of the universe

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itself

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our home galaxy the milky way is known

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to have about 150 globular clusters they

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orbit outside the galaxy's disk

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traveling tens of thousands of light

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years above and below its spiral arms

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and most of its stars

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now the hercules cluster is best

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observed with a telescope and larger

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telescopes will allow you to see more of

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the cluster's stars but you can also

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find it with a pair of binoculars where

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find m13 in the constellation hercules

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which is high in the east in the first

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couple of hours after dark in june

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first look for the bright stars vega and

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arcturus

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then find the four stars that comprise

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the keystone which is the pattern making

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up the central part of hercules

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you'll find m13 about a third of the way

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between the two stars on the western or

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leading side of the keystone

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so check out the great globular cluster

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in hercules m13 in june and find

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yourself staring at an ancient gathering

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of stars that soars high above the milky

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finally in june a quick introduction to

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one of the smaller constellations that's

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home to one of the brightest stars

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that's the constellation lyra

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it represents a liar or harp played by

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the musician orpheus in greek mythology

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in arab cultures as well as ancient

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egypt and india lyra was seen as an

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eagle

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and the inca of south america saw it as

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a llama

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find lyra by looking for vega which is

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the westernmost of the three bright

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stars in the summer triangle

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in the northern hemisphere you'll find

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it halfway up the eastern sky in the

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first couple of hours after dark in june

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vega is by far the brightest star in

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lyra

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it's the fifth brightest star in the sky

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and the second brightest in the northern

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hemisphere after sirius

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a pair of binoculars will help you see

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the other stars in lyra which form a

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sort of parallelogram hanging beneath it

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it's sometimes described as looking a

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bit like a diamond ring with vega as the

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diamond and that's not the only ring in

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lyra it's also home to the famous ring

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nebula where a star has blown off most

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of its outer layers leaving behind a

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remnant star known as a white dwarf

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so let the bright star vega lead you to

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lyra the harp constellation in the june

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sky

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and if you see it as an eagle or a

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diamond ring or a llama well that's

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perfectly okay too

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here are the phases of the moon for june

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stay up to date with all of nasa's

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missions to explore the solar system and

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beyond at nasa.gov

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i'm preston dykes from nasa's jet