Picture of the Day · NASA
Jupiter and Venus from Earth
2026-06-07
It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. That year, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to photograph a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated by only three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this week after sunset, passing within a degree of each other about two days from today.
© Marek Nikodem (PPSAE) · via NASA APOD
Key facts
- Discovered by
- E. L. Johnson
- Discovery site
- Johannesburg Obs.
- Discovery date
- 21 August 1946
- Named after
- Aisleen Johnson, (discoverer's wife)
- Alternative designations
- 1946 QB
- Minor planet category
- main-belt · Phocaea
Article · Español
(1568) Aisleen es un asteroide perteneciente al cinturón de asteroides descubierto por Ernest Leonard Johnson desde el observatorio Union de Johannesburgo, República Sudaficana, el 21 de agosto de 1946.
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