Watch the moon phases and libration for 2024, as seen from Earth's Southern Hemisphere, in this time-lapsed animation that is ...

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young ...

Of course, all of this becomes the opposite once you’re viewing the moon from the Southern Hemisphere. As EarthSky explains: “observers in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres see the moon ...

Many of the portraits of the Moon are oriented in the way you’d see them from the Northern Hemisphere. There’s nothing fundamental about this orientation relative to the Southern Hemisphere ...

At the end of June, Venus spans 18″ and shows a 63-percent-lit phase. A nearly Full Moon occults the 1st-magnitude star Antares on June 10. Prime viewing locations include Australia and New Zealand.

The full moon of February, known as the Snow Moon, will reach peak illumination in the eastern U.S. at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, three days after it occults Mars. The full moon occurs ...

From the Southern Hemisphere, however, Orion appears in the north, so it’s the northern part of the constellation that lies closest to the horizon. And when you look north, east is to your right.