EarthSky News - June 13 - Your Earliest Sunrises (or Sunsets)

June 13 Your Earliest Sunrises (or Sunsets) by:

Earliest sunrises before summer solstice Or - if you live in the Southern Hemisphere - your earliest sunsets are taking place around now.  Either way, it happens about a week before the solstice. All you need to know: June solstice 2017 The solstice will come on June 21 at 4:24 UTC; translate to your time zone. It means, for some, the solstice will fall on June 20. Galaxies have aligned for 10 billion years Most galaxies are randomly oriented in space, but the biggest ones often point toward their neighbors. A new study traces these alignments back into the early universe. Video: Greenland's thinning ice Ice sheets are melting from both above and below, scientists say.

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Where's the moon? Waning gibbous Chirag Upreti caught the moon as it was rising late last night. He wrote it was: " ... a deep orange hue behind summer foliage in New Jersey. The colors expressed by the moon as it moved over the horizon and beyond were really breathtaking."

All you need to know: June solstice 2017 The sunset has been making its way north, as illustrated in this 2016 photo composite by Abhijit Juvekar. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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