(NewsNation) — July 2024 is promising to be a celestial feast for skygazers, with events ranging from meteor showers to planetary alignments.
July 1: The month kicks off with a rare sighting of Comet 13P/Olbers, visible for the first time in 69 years. Best viewed in early July, the comet can be spotted after sunset traveling beneath Ursa Major toward the northwest horizon until about midnight.
Mars will also rise in the sky where skygazers will see a thin crescent moon just above the Red Planet, Popular Science reported. The Adler Planetarium says that Mars will be slightly brighter than first magnitude in July and will........