Northern Sky: June 25 - July 8

Deane Morrison is a science writer at the University of Minnesota, where she authors the Minnesota Starwatch column.

A new moon and earth at aphelion on July 4; historical speculation about Sirius' involvement in the dog days; Regulus, Jupiter, Mars, Scorpius and Saturn all in the late evening sky; and in the news: light pollution interfering with seeing the Milky Way.