What’s up in the night sky: July 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, and some groovy constellations.
All month: Super bright Venus is in the predawn east. Very bright Jupiter is low on the eastern predawn horizon, moving upwards toward Venus as the weeks pass.
All month: Yellowish Saturn rises late in the evening in the east.
All month: Reddish Mars is in the evening west, getting lower as the weeks pass.
The first half of the month: Mercury is low in the west after sunset.
July 4: Mercury is at its greatest elongation, meaning it will be highest above the horizon for this viewing period, making it the easiest time to see it.

July 10: Full Moon
July 16: The Moon is near yellowish Saturn, rising in the middle of the night, and up fairly high before dawn.

July 21: The crescent Moon is near super-bright Venus.

July 28: In the evening sky, reddish Mars and the Moon are very close in the sky.

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Bruce Betts
Chief Scientist / LightSail Program Manager for The Planetary Society
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