Local NPR for the Cape, Coast & Islands 90.1 91.1 94.3
In This Place

Looking Skyward: The summer solstice and a rare alignment of the planets

CAI | By John Basile
Published June 16, 2022 at 3:00 PM EDT
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio
During the solstices, Earth reaches a point where its tilt is at the greatest angle to the plane of its orbit, causing one hemisphere to receive more daylight than the other.
NASA/Genna Duberstein

In this edition of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory about the summer solstice. They also discuss the rare chance to see five planets at once in the late June sky.

In This PlaceLooking Skyward
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
John Basile
John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.
See stories by John Basile
  1. Looking Skyward: Contact with Voyager 1 is restored
  2. Looking Skyward: Get ready for T Cor Bor (It's a star!)
  3. Looking Skyward: Lunar and solar eclipses coming this spring
  4. Looking Skyward: Newly discovered galaxies test understanding of dark matter
  5. Looking Skyward: Two missions enhance knowledge of asteroids