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
Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 37.511
- Orbital period
- 2050.805259659737
Show 14 more facts
- provisional designation
- 1972 XD1
- time of discovery or invention
- 1937-10-11
- orbital eccentricity
Article · Español
(1438) Wendeline es el asteroide número 1438 situado en el cinturón principal. Fue descubierto por el astrónomo Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth desde el observatorio de Heidelberg, el 11 de octubre de 1937. Su designación alternativa es 1937 TC. Se desconoce la razón del nombre.
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