Look bigger. | In 2014, when the quarter was flying, many people at northern latitudes were watching the auroras. Photo by Tommy Eliasen. The quadrangular meteor shower is the first major meteor shower of 2021. Unfortunately, a bright weak gibbous moon will illuminate the sky at the expected peak night …
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Image via NASA. The fact is that Earth's orbit is almost, but not entirely, circular. So our distance from the sun doesn't change much. Today, we are about 3 million miles (5 million km) further from the sun than we will be in six months. That contrasts with our average …
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The last sunset of the year always comes after the summer solstice, although the exact date of the last sunset depends on your latitude. Further north in Seattle, the last sunset occurred around June 25. Further south, in Mexico City or Hawaii, the last sunset will not occur until early …
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