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
Key facts
- Discovered by
- R. M. West
- Discovery site
- La Silla Obs.
- Discovery date
- 24 October 1976
- Named after
- Tamara West, (discoverer's wife)
- Alternative designations
- 1976 UN · 1928 TD, 1939 YA · 1942 JE, 1949 UV · 1951 CP 1 , 1952 FL · 1952 HL 2 , 1954 TS · 1975 WB 2 , A902 UB
- Minor planet category
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Article
2052 Tamriko, provisional designation 1976 UN, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 27 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 October 1976, by Richard Martin West at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. The asteroid was named after the discoverer's wife Tamara West.
Orbit and classification