The planet Venus and the Pleiades star clusters over Althofen, Carinthia, Austria. The sky was mostly cloudy that evening. Just for a brief moment, the sky dropped the veil of clouds and revealed the goddess of love and the seven sisters. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49735330117_56a0334027_z....
Milky Way Panorama Copyright: Erich Meyer Contact: meyer@sternwarte.at https://znphmw.dm2303.livefilestore.com/y3m6u9aFPQq9qN4Q4a8nrim_zpvJFLC_pR4tKQQlJVLM5VptrrB6dVJCneKy1-wo5FfAZvu2t8Um4_p5I5pMlc9y8LH5jVXLkfmTOEF4z6pY1M_zVQ4R5E-FyIqFU8uPlRs5tTwRcTJJIqCNWi1JN2RmxmpBOXer7iFvv8JCX60sB0?width=900&...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/447/19305724945_5b7c5af8fb_c.jpg Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter by H. Raab , on Flickr On the evening of June 30, 2015, the planets Vernus and Jupiter formed a stunning pair in the colorful evening twilight. The apparent distance between the two planets was only 22 a...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/456/18144124324_ddaa1d226b_z.jpg It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a flaring satellite! Three kids climbed a hill near their home village to watch a flare of the Iridium 29 satellite. Below the flaring satellite, the planets Jupiter and Venus (the brighter one of the...
Colorful Conjunction The crescent Moon, Saturn and Venus in the evening twilight on September 9, 2013 Copyright: Herbert Raab (http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbraab/) https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7355/9712914140_b5eb3fcbb7_z.jpg Colorful Conjunction by herbraab , on Flickr Link to full size image...
ISS passes over a Thunderstorm Copyright Herbert Raab (http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbraab/) Ths International Space Station (ISS) passes over a thunderstorm. Stars of the constallations Corona Borealis, Bootes and Canes Venatici are also visible above the clouds, many of them fading out as the c...
Brilliant Venus, which has just passed trough the "golden gate of the ecliptic", formed by the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters, is visible behind a blooming tree. The red giant star Betelgeuse can be seen above the tree, while the rest of the constellation Orion has already slipped beind...
This fisheye view of the night sky captures the moon and five planets: Venus is the brilliant "star" in the West (right), near the Plejades cluster. Jupiter is low in the western sky, below (i.e., to the right) of Venus. The red planet Mars shines high the sky, in the constellation Leo, th...
The cerscent, waxing Moon meets the Planets Venus and Jupiter over the banks of the Danube river in Linz, Austria, on March 26, 2012. A number of stars is also visible in the twilight sky, including part of the constellation Orion at left, the constellation Cassiopeia towards the right, and the Hyad...
Twilight The two prominent planets Venus and Jupiter already shine brightly in the evening sky, while the stars slowly appear in the darkening sky over the alpine foothills. Copyright: Herbert Raab Link to larger image: Twilight by herbraab , on Flickr http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6221/6858024604_...
Kepler and two Planets The bright planets Venus and Jupiter shine in the evening sky behind the Kepler memorial in Linz, Austria. Kepler lived and worked in Linz from 1612 until 1624, longer than at any other place in his eventful life. Amongst others, he discovered the 3rd of his famous rules of p...
There is regrowth. For example, on the far right in the image, there are a few small, newly grown trees. Don't forget, this is not Washington, this is Siberia. I have seen slices from trees from the Tungsuka impact site, and the annual rings are extremely narrow. Plant growth is very slow there. Che...