All About Space

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

Venus will be brighter in the sky and Saturn will be visible for longer, but Jupiter will be the most visually striking of all the worlds stretched out across the predawn sky this month. All through the month ahead, Jupiter will be a bright ‘morning star’, and even the light of the predawn sky won’t prevent it from being easily visible to the naked eye as a blue-white star, outshining the other worlds on either side of it.

In mid-June

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