(Here are nine must-see night sky events to look forward to in 2025.) Southern delta Aquariids meteors tend to be faint, and you might not see more than a dozen or two shooting stars per hour at most.

Two meteor showers —the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids — reach their peaks this week. Here’s how to observe these celestial events.

The Thunder Moon, also known as the Buck Moon, will be visible in the sky on July 10, 2025. Pictured here is a full supermoon rising in front of the Statue of Liberty in New York on June 14, 2022.

Night sky observers are being treated this week to a view of a red-tinted full moon — known in June as a “strawberry moon” — a phenomenon that occurs when the moon sits low on the Southern ...

However, the best time to view it will be the evening of June 10, when the moon rises near sunset. Despite its name, the strawberry moon will shine a soft golden hue, not red, if weather permits.

Rubin’s camera captures 3.5 degrees of the sky, more than most telescopes can map. Each image takes 15 seconds to capture and only two seconds to download.