A Morning Line of Stars and Planets
Explanation:
Early morning dog walkers got a visual treat last week
as bright stars and planets appeared to line up.
Pictured above, easily visible from left to right, were the
Pleiades open star cluster,
Jupiter,
Venus, and the
"
Follower" star
Aldebaran, all seen before a
starry background.
The image was taken from the
Atacama desert
in western
South America.
The glow of the rising Sun can be seen over the eastern horizon.
Jupiter and Venus will
continue to dazzle pre-dawn strollers all over planet Earth
for the rest of the month,
although
even now the
morning planets
are seen projected away from the line connecting their distant stellar
sky mates.
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