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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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(2874) Jim Young (1982 TH; 1962 WE; 1965 SD; 1972 TD2; 1972 XF) ist ein ungefähr sieben Kilometer großer Asteroid des inneren Hauptgürtels, der am 13. Oktober 1982 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) (IAU-Code 801) entdeckt wurde.
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