The next time they will meet only half a century
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Venus and Jupiter, some of the brightest point in the sky, next Saturday is almost merge together. This is a fairly rare event, and the next time it will be visible only in 2065, astronomers say, declared about the coming “parade of planets».
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«The merger” of the two objects will be visible in the western sky shortly after sunset, and naked eye for some time will be treated as a single whole. Experts note that it is very close to each other from the point of view of the terrestrial observer planets are right now -. In the next night the distance between them is comparable to the thickness of your thumb at arm’s length
Experts say that overall convergence of those or other two planets similar to that which can be observed on Saturday – a fairly common phenomenon, and it is often possible to observe a few times per decade. However, Venus and Jupiter in the night sky, “there are” relatively rare, and since both of these planets seem to be very bright point in the night sky, this convergence often attracts special attention to amateur astronomers.
A little more than a month ago for about week in the night sky can be the naked eye can be observed the International space station, which at that time was even brighter than Venus and Jupiter. In early February of this year, the inhabitants of the Earth at the same time can see the horizon of five planets in the solar system – Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Mercury – and decreasing the Moon
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