The early bird gets the worm this July! All month in July, the planetary action is in the morning sky: From July 14-16, grab your binoculars and wake up early to catch Mars in the early morning before the sky starts to brighten, and you'll find the distant planet Uranus quite close by. On July 30, look for a close gathering of Jupiter, Mars, and the Moon with the bright stars of the constellation Taurus in the a.m. sky before dawn. For night owls, there are two easy-to-spot star clusters – M7, aka Ptolemy's Cluster, and M6, the Butterfly Cluster – are both located about 5 degrees east of the the bright stars that mark the "stinger" end of the scorpion's tail. They reach their highest point in the sky around 10 or 11 p.m. local time. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Thumbnail credit: Bill Dunford #NASA #Space #Skywatching #Mars #Jupiter #Moon #July #EarlyBirds #Nightowls