Planning a barbecue this weekend? You may want to top it off with a look at three bright planets shuttling about the western sky at dusk. Jupiter, Venus and Mercury gather for nearly a week of delightful alignments including three separate conjunctions staring right now. Mercury and Venus pair up on Friday; Mercury and Jupiter
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Venus and Mars may be all right tonight, but there's still a lot we don't understand about these planets. Why does one, Venus, Âhave such a thick atmosphere? Why is that of Mars so thin? And why is Earth's atmosphere so different again from what we see on Venus and Mars? (...)Read the rest of
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VenusÂhas a reputation for being one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system, and deservedly so. Its thick carbon dioxide (and acidic) atmosphere has a crushing pressure similar to that in the deepest oceans on Earth and the … Continue reading →The post Could life exist in Venus' atmosphere? appeared first on The Meridiani Journal.
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Sky-watchers this week get a chance to go eye to eye with a cosmic scorpion and witness a magnificent meeting of three neighboring worlds in the evening skies.
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Western horizon as seen from Adelaide at 5:45 pm ACST on 24 May, when Venus and Mercury are closest. Similar views will be seen from the rest of the southern hemisphere at the equivalent local time. Click on any image to embiggenWestern horizon as seen from Adelaide at 5:45 pm ACST on 26 May, when all 3 planets are within a circle 3Â across. Western horizon as seen from Adelaide at 5:45 pm ACST on 28 May, when Venus and Jupiter are closest. Western horizon as seen from Adelaide at 5:45 pm ACST on
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Venus and Jupiter as seen from Adelaide on 17 May, 2013. Imaged with a Canon IXUS, 1/4 sec exposure, ASA 400 3x Zoom at 5:55 pm ACST. Jupiter is the dot at the top right, Venus is bottom left, indicated by the yellow lines. You will need to click on the image to embiggen to see Venus clearly.Venus has finally returned to the evening skies. Well, it's been in the evening skies fro a while, but with the lousy weather of the past few week, there was no chance to see it.Venus is very close to the ho
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The lunar wall comes into view, three planets huddle, and the moon joins the Leo constellation in this week's best sky events.
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During the month of May, three planets are going to move into a very close alignment, and the set up begins this week with the Moon adding some color to the scene for a few days. The two fast-moving inner planets, Mercury and Venus, are going to be coming into view in the west shortly after sunset, joining the massive Jupiter as it slowly fades out of view into the twilight. The dynamics of these changes is not easy to explain in a short blog post, but because of the fact that inner and outer pl
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Has Venus finally come out of hiding? For the past couple months it's kept close to the sun, hidden in its glare, but come Friday, sky watchers in mid-northern latitudes may get their first shot at seeing the planet's return to the evening sky. (...)Read the rest of Venus Comes Out of Hiding! How to
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Straggler meteors, a solar eclipse, and the return of Venus are among the best sky events to watch this week.
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If you find yourself in the great outdoors any evening during May and it's a cloudless night, turning your eyes towards the heavens could be an unusually interesting way for...
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