by APOD Robot » Fri May 29, 2020 4:05 am
Mercury Meets Crescent Venus
Explanation: That's not a bright star and
crescent Moon caught between branches of a eucalyptus tree. It's Venus in a crescent phase and Mercury. Near the western horizon after sunset, the two inner planets closely shared this telescopic field of view on May 22, seen from a balcony in Civitavecchia, Italy.
Venus, the very bright celestial beacon, is wandering lower into the evening twilight. It grows larger in apparent size and shows a
thinner crescent as it heads toward its inferior conjunction, positioned between Earth and Sun on June 3.
Mercury, in a fuller phase, is climbing in the western sky though, reaching its maximum angular distance from the Sun on June 4 Still, this
remarkably close pairing with brilliant Venus made Mercury, usually lost in bright twilight skies, easier to spot from planet Earth.
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[b] Explanation: [/b] [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140101.html]That's not a bright star[/url] and [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050513.html]crescent Moon[/url] caught between branches of a eucalyptus tree. It's Venus in a crescent phase and Mercury. Near the western horizon after sunset, the two inner planets closely shared this telescopic field of view on May 22, seen from a balcony in Civitavecchia, Italy. [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/]Venus, the very bright[/url] celestial beacon, is wandering lower into the evening twilight. It grows larger in apparent size and shows a [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200521.html]thinner crescent[/url] as it heads toward its inferior conjunction, positioned between Earth and Sun on June 3. [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/]Mercury, in[/url] a fuller phase, is climbing in the western sky though, reaching its maximum angular distance from the Sun on June 4 Still, this [url=https://earthsky.org/tonight/mercury-venus-pair-up-at-dusk-may-21-and-22]remarkably close pairing[/url] with brilliant Venus made Mercury, usually lost in bright twilight skies, easier to spot from planet Earth.
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