Webb telescope spies massive plume erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus The inset, an image from the Cassini orbiter, emphasizes how small Enceladus appears in the Webb image compared to the water plume.Ĭredits: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/G. In this image, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a water vapor plume jetting from the southern pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, extending out 20 times the size of the moon itself. People in Argentina and the Atlantic Daylight Time zones “eastward across the rest of North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia to the International Date Line in the mid-Pacific” will see Antares, the most luminous star in the Scorpius constellation, a few degrees right of the moon. This year, according to NASA, some moon gazers will get an additional treat. The strawberry moon got its name from Native American tribes “to mark the ripening of ‘June-bearing’ strawberries that are ready to be gathered,” according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which notes, “As flowers bloom and early fruit ripens, June is a time of great abundance for many.”
#To illuminate meaning full#
The name of this last full moon of the spring, which is sometimes the first full moon of the summer, has nothing to do with the moon’s appearance or color. Find out your local peak time using The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s full moon calculator and check the local forecast. ET Saturday and appear full for three days, according to NASA.
The orb will reach peak illumination at 11:42 p.m. You can watch the full moon’s rise just after sunset in the southeast direction. The strawberry moon will light up the night sky this weekend.
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