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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
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(2863) Ben Mayer (1981 QG2; 1975 NV; 1976 YG4; 1984 DF2) ist ein ungefähr 18 Kilometer großer Asteroid des äußeren Hauptgürtels, der am 30. August 1981 vom US-amerikanischen Astronomen Edward L. G. Bowell am Lowell-Observatorium, Anderson Mesa Station (Anderson Mesa) in der Nähe von Flagstaff, Arizona (IAU-Code 688) entdeckt wurde. Er gehört zur Themis-Familie, einer Gruppe von Asteroiden, die nach (24) Themis benannt ist.
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