Humanity’s need to track the Moon's changing phases and motions is ancient. Mammoth hunters used the Moon as a timekeeper, carving crescent-shaped notches into bone and tusk. Sumerian astronomers recorded the Moon's motion on clay tablets more than 3,

As a result, the Earth is not currently orbiting a point inside the Sun, as the barycenter is outside of it. We are orbiting that point in space, rather than the Sun. Though the planets are generally talked about as orbiting the Sun's center, that isn't quite true, largely because of gas giant Jupiter's influence.

The Strawberry Moon will rise Tuesday night, June 10, and appear low in Michigan skies, a rare phenomenon called a major lunar standstill.