Twice each month, the sky offers a kind of punctuation — a full moon or a darkened sun — reminding those who look up that the heavens move on a schedule older than any human calendar. Tonight's Buck Moon, named for the antlers deer carry into summer's end, rises orange and full in the east, arriving precisely two weeks before a total solar eclipse will briefly extinguish the sun over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain on August 12. These are not isolated spectacles but a sequence, a summer of astronomical events that asks something simple of us: to pause, look up, and remember that we live inside a