Tag: july 2025
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A Comparison of Meteor Showers: July versus August
Today, we are going to take a quick look at a few different meteor showers, beginning with the meteor showers that are peaking at the moment in late July. Then we’ll take a look ahead to the meteor shower that will be peaking once we come into August. We’re starting with sunset on the 28th…
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Breith Réalta | The Birth of a Star
For today, we will be looking at stars. I know that we look the stars in every piece, one way or the other. Even if we are talking more about the planets or something like that, the stars are always behind them, the stars are in the sky. We’re still looking at them while we…
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Uranus and Neptune: Lonely Ice Giants
Today we are going to take a closer look at the planets Neptune and Uranus. We have taken a look at both planets before, each in their own separate post on this website, so if you want to take a look back at the pieces dedicated to Neptune and Uranus individually, they are still up…
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Titan versus the Icy Moons: Different Biospheres
Today, we are going to be taking a look at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. We may take a look at a couple of other moons as well, but Saturn’s moons are more reasonably visible at this time of the year than Jupiters. Around the middle of the month, the Moon is pretty close to Saturn,…
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The Moon in July, a Harvest Moon?
Today, we are going to take a look at the Moon. We are coming up to the Full Moon for the month of July, so we’re going to take a look at how the Moon is going to behave from here to the end of the month. As some of you may remember, I am…
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Two July Conjunctions! (One in 2037)
Today, we are going to take a look at some upcoming events based on the suggestions of various commenters on my YouTube videos. In celebration of hitting 500 subscribers on YouTube, I am planning on making a Q&A video. As such, I am looking for any questions that anybody might have that I may be…
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The Night Sky in July: A Look Ahead
Today, we are going to have a very quick look through the month of July. Some of you may have already seen a quick look at the coming month of July here thanks to the article accompanying the Irish language video I recently posted to my YouTube channel. If you go back a few posts,…
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Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!
Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means…
