Little by little we move towards the summer, which begins astronomically in June of every year, and in the meantime the sites of stars and planets change in the sky of the night, and then astronomical amateurs are on a date with a heavenly display that changes every month, and during June 2025 there is a group of wonderful astronomical events that you can see with your eyes easily.
The moon between Mars and the lion’s heart
Let us start from the evening of the first day of June, as you can see the moon standing next to a bright red crime, this crime is Mars.
Mars is characterized by its red color, which has long been attributed to the presence of hematite metal, an iron oxide that is formed in dry conditions, but a recent study published in February 2025 suggested that the metal responsible for this color may be the virhydeide, an iron oxide that contains water and is formed in cold and wet environments.
This discovery indicates that Mars has witnessed in the past a cold and humid environment, which enhances the hypothesis that the planet contained liquid water, which is an essential element of life.
The next evening, directly (June 2), the moon stands next to the brightest stars of the lion constellation and is called “the heart of the lion”. This star is ranked 21 in terms of luminosity with an apparent amount of 1.35, and away from the Earth about 79 light years, and is considered one of the prominent stars in the northern half of the globe.
Shiny stars
As for the evening of June 6, the moon stands next to the defenseless star, and it is the brightest stars of the constellation of the Virgin, this star moves away from the Earth about 250 thousand light years.
Despite all of these tremendous distance, this star is clearly shiny in the Earth’s sky, and the reason for this is related to its enormity (with a diameter greater than 7 times the sun) and then his light, where he can- if the sun’s place- can shine more than 20 thousand times.
As for the evening of June 11, the moon stands next to another brilliant star, which is the heart of Scorpio, the brightest stars of the constellation of Scorpio, which is for astronomer amateurs an essential sign of the astronomical summer.
The heart of Scorpio is a super giant at the end of its life, and it is large so that if it was the size of football, the sun would have been the size of a rice, it is believed that this star may explode at any moment between now and several million years.
Back to the planets
At dawn on June 19, the moon stands next to Saturn, which appears in the sky in a white yellow color, and in a small telescope you can clearly distinguish its wonderful rings.
Under the dawn of June 22, you can clearly see the moon standing next to the Venus, which shines in the sky like a Munir’s lamp, and in fact it is the planet of Venus from the first days of the month, it is in the best position to monitor it, as it reaches the maximum elongation on the first day of the month.
On June 29, the moon dates back to its position at the beginning of the month, where it stands next to the brilliant Red Mars.