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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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(3196) Maklaj (1978 RY; 1976 GY5; 1979 YS2) ist ein ungefähr 14 Kilometer großer Asteroid des äußeren Hauptgürtels, der am 1. September 1978 vom russischen (damals: Sowjetunion) Astronomen Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych am Krim-Observatorium (Zweigstelle Nautschnyj) auf der Halbinsel Krim (IAU-Code 095) entdeckt wurde.
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