June 19 - Summer Solstice, Top Stories

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Waiting for dawn to arrive at Stonehenge, summer solstice 2005. Image via Andrew Dunn/ Wikimedia Commons. Read more about summer solstice at Stonehenge in 2021.

All you need to know: June solstice 2021 The June solstice - your signal to celebrate summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere - will happen on June 21 at 03:32 UTC. That’s tomorrow, June 20, at 10:32 p.m. CDT in North America. Translate UTC to your time. Read more. The 1st microsecond of the Big Bang What was the universe like moments after the Big Bang? Cosmologists probe the basic physics of that earliest time using particle accelerators. They used the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to investigate a specific kind of plasma present during the first millionth of a second - aka the first microsecond - of the Big Bang. They said this plasma was the first matter ever to be present in our universe. And, they said, it had liquid-like properties. Read more. Earth’s lopsided core? Strangeness in our planet’s interior Earth's core doesn't tend toward roundness. A new study suggests it grows asymmetrically, that is, faster on one side than the other. That's apparently been the case since our planet's core began to freeze out from molten iron more than half a billion years ago. The region of the inner core with the fastest growth is located beneath the Banda Sea in Indonesia. Read more. Summer solstice tale of 2 cities At tomorrow's solstice, the sun will set at the same time in New York City and St. Augustine, Florida. But New York will have an hour more of daylight. Why? More top stories Asteroid Psyche: $10,000 quadrillion or rubble pile? Blue Origin's $28 million ticket to space Astronomers spot the largest rotation in the universe What is a magnetar? 5 satellite images show how fast our planet is changing Poison mushrooms: how to tell

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Tonight and tomorrow … Moon and Spica The bright star near the moon tonight is Spica, the sole 1st-magnitude star in the constellation Virgo the Maiden. Notice the moon's motion on all of these nights. Its motion across our sky stems from its movement in orbit around Earth. Read more.

Milky Way over New Hampshire View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Jatinkumar Thakkar in Franconia, New Hampshire, caught this image of the Milky Way on June 7. Jatinkumar wrote: “After almost a month-long break, and seeing promising weather, my friends and I decided to shoot the Milky Way. We revisited the same location from last year, but couldn't get the images at the time due to an unexpected change in the weather. This time we got a clear sky and almost no wind. That helped us to capture a beautiful scene of the Milky Way and mountains reflection. Cars passing by were creating a light trail, giving another dimension in the image. What a wonderful night to cherish!” Thank you, Jatinkumar! Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Subscribe & Support Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription. Want to help support EarthSky? Forward this email to a friend. Share our content via your social media. Consider a donation. Go shopping at the EarthSky Store. Thank you for your support!

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