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what's up for July

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Mars and Venus go their separate ways

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Saturn cruises with a Dusty young star

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and it's prime time for the Milky Way

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you'll find Venus and Mars in the West

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after Sunset throughout July the pair

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moved ever closer in the sky during June

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and they begin July appearing quite near

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to each other but it's time for them to

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part company

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you'll notice them trending lower as the

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month goes on with Venus in particular

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being noticeably lower each night

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during the second week of July

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reddish-colored Mars will appear very

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close to the blue white star regulus

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Mars is quite distant from Earth right

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now and appears at its dimmest for the

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year in July and August

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this month it appears at about the same

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brightness as regulus and you should

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easily be able to see the difference in

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their color with your eyes or a pair of

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binoculars they're closest together on

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July 9th and 10th and on the 20th the

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moon will pass through appearing just

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next to Mars Mercury also pops up quite

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low in the sky in the second half of

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July for those with views of the horizon

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during July you'll have giant planets

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Jupiter and Saturn keeping you company

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in the late night and early morning

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hours and notably you'll find Jupiter

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shining brightly beneath the Crescent

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Moon on the morning of July 11th now

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Jupiter appears quite a bit brighter

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than Saturn and it's not just because

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Jupiter is a little bigger see the

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farther away something is in Space the

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fainter it tends to be and Saturn's

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certainly farther away from Earth than

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Jupiter but it's also farther away from

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the Sun and being more distant means it

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receives much less sunlight than Jupiter

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to begin with so it's a combination of

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being both farther from the Sun and

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farther from Earth that makes Saturn

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appear so much fainter

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a Saturn cruises across the sky with

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bright star fomalhout in July

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at around 440 million years old fomal

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hound is a fairly Young Star NASA's web

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Space Telescope recently revealed new

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details in the dusty debris disc that

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surrounds it Webb showed that there's

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much more structure in the disc than was

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previously known with three distinct

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belts made of debris from collisions of

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larger bodies probably not unlike the

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asteroids and comets in our own

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planetary system and researchers think

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the belts most likely are carved by the

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gravitational forces produced by unseen

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planets it's a nice reminder that most

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stars you gaze upon represent entire

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planetary systems each one is a sun and

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most have a family of worlds in orbit

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around them

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finally a reminder that July is prime

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time for viewing the bright core of our

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home galaxy The Milky Way the Milky Way

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core is visible looking toward the south

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in July as a faint diagonal band of

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light as soon as it's fully dark packed

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with enormous numbers of stars along

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with dark clouds of dust you can view

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its faint glow with your own eyes from

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locations away from Bright Urban centers

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so if you have the opportunity to go

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camping or Sky watching away from the

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city it's truly one of the most

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awe-inspiring sights of the night sky

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are the phases of the moon for July

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stay up to date with all of nessa's

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missions to explore the solar system and

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Beyond at nasa.gov I'm Preston Dykes