<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2024/0616.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>Bakersfield Night Sky — June 16, 2024</title><item_date>06/12/2024 12:06:18 PM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/june-16-2024-BNS-h.jpg" alt="Mid June at 9 PM looking south-southwest"/></image><tags><tag>2024</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>Tonight (June 16) the waxing gibbous moon will be about a couple of knuckles at arm’s length to the left of the bright star, Spica, on the east (left) side of Virgo. Spica is actually a binary system with both stars much hotter than the sun and...</content_summary></item>