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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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(3607) Naniwa ist ein Asteroid des äußeren Hauptgürtels, der am 18. Februar 1977 von den japanischen Astronomen Hiroki Kōsai und Kiichirō Furukawa am Kiso-Observatorium (IAU-Code 381) in Kiso in der Präfektur Nagano auf der japanischen Hauptinsel Honshū entdeckt wurde. Benannt wurde der Asteroid nach dem ursprünglichen Namen der drittgrößten Stadt Japans Ōsaka, die von 645 bis 655 unter dem Kōtoku-tennō Hauptstadt Japans war und in der Toyotomi Hideyoshi ab 1580 die Burg Ōsaka erbaute.
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