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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Планеты на крыле http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1395850/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Dong Han
Explanation:
Lately,
bright Jupiter and fainter Mars have been easy to spot for early
morning skygazers.
Before dawn
on January 7
the two naked-eye planets will reach a close
conjunction near the horizon, only 1/4 degree apart
in predawn eastern skies.
That apparent separation corresponds to about half the
angular diameter
of a Full Moon.
Just off the wing of a high-flying aircraft in this snapshot from
early morning January 5, Jupiter (left) and Mars (middle) are also
lined-up with the well-balanced
Zubenelgenubi (right),
alpha star of the constellation Libra.
Below are lights from central Europe near Prague, Czech Republic,
planet Earth.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.