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What’s up in the night sky: June 2025

Welcome to our night sky monthly feature, where we focus on easy and fun things to see in the night sky, mostly with just your eyes. This month: morning and evening planets. It’s kind of a slow month for other events, so it makes a good month to enjoy the starry sky, including learning any asterisms and constellations you may not already know.

All month: Super bright Venus is in the predawn east. Yellowish Saturn is rising in the middle of the night in the east. 

All month: Very bright Jupiter is very low in the western evening sky at the beginning of the month, dropping below the horizon partway through the month. Reddish Mars is higher up in the evening sky above Jupiter.

The middle and latter part of the month: Mercury is low in the west after sunset.

June 1: Venus is as high above the pre-dawn horizon as it will get during this appearance (greatest western elongation being the technical term).

June 1: The Moon is near reddish Mars in the evening sky.

June 11: Full Moon.

June 19: The Moon is near yellowish Saturn, rising in the middle of the night, and up fairly high before dawn.

June 19, 2025 night sky snapshot
June 19, 2025 night sky snapshot In the predawn east, the Moon is near yellowish Saturn with super bright Venus lower toward the horizon. (Pasadena, California. Latitude: about 34 degrees north.)Image: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society using Stellarium

June 22: The crescent Moon is near super-bright Venus.

June 22, 2025 night sky snapshot
June 22, 2025 night sky snapshot In the predawn east, the crescent Moon is near super-bright Venus. The Pleaides star cluster is also nearby, as is Uranus (to see Uranus, you’ll probably need binoculars or a telescope). (Pasadena, California. Latitude: about 34 degrees north.)Image: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society using Stellarium

June 25: New Moon.

June 26, 2025 night sky snapshot
June 26, 2025 night sky snapshot Soon after sunset, very low to the western horizon, there is a lineup of Mercury, the crescent Moon, and the twin stars of Gemini: Pollux and Castor. (Pasadena, California. Latitude: about 34 degrees north.)Image: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society using Stellarium

June 29: The evening of June 29, reddish Mars and the Moon are very close in the sky.

June 29, 2025 night sky snapshot
June 29, 2025 night sky snapshot In the western evening sky, the Moon is very close to Mars. Nearby is the constellation Leo, including its brightest star, Regulus. (Pasadena, California. Latitude: about 34 degrees north.)Image: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society using Stellarium
The Milky Way over Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park

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Bruce Betts

Bruce Betts

Chief Scientist / LightSail Program Manager for The Planetary Society
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