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The Summer Solstice, 2025 and the Strawberry Moon

Posted on June 17, 2025 by astrochange

The Summer Solstice, 2025 The 2025 Summer Solstice, the Astronomical beginning of summer and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs this year on Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:42 pm EDT (Saturday, June 21, 2025, 2:42 UTC). By contrast, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere experience the exact opposite; for[…]

A Silent Monster lurks at the Heart of a Cosmic Lens: X-ray Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in Lensing Galaxy

Posted on June 13, 2025June 14, 2025 by astrochange

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Shakespeare’s Hamlet) This article was originally published in Substack as “A Silent Monster lurks at the Heart of a Cosmic Lens: X-ray Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in the Lensing Elliptical Galaxy” We, bound by a common origin,[…]