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going going gone! Venus reappears! If you were up before sunrise on Monday, August 13th, 2012 you might have seen a very bright “star” next to the moon. As dawn turned to daylight, you could still see that star, or rather, that planet in the daytime snuggled up to the crescent moon. That planet was [...] The moon's summer and winter path, courtesy NASA's Starchild website The winter’s moon – a smiling crescent just after sunset Feb 5, 2011 (click to see moon upper center) Closeup of winter crescent moon The summer's "backwards C" crescent moon at sunset, late June 2007 (click to see moon in lower right) Closeup [...] See the moon and planets low in the west August 12, courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech The view from Earth – the planetary lineup in orbital perspective courtesy NASA’s Solar System Simulator, courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars and moon imaged same day with same equipment (in 2005) courtesy Jim Keen A trio of planets, without the moon August 7, [...] Galileo’s drawing my drawing my sketch of Jupiter’s rotation Galileo published his observations in Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610: “On the 7th day of January in the present year, 1610, in the first hour of the following night, when I was viewing the constellations of the heavons through a telescope, the planet Jupiter [...] |
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