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English: June 30, 2015 - Venus and Jupiter come close together in a planetary conjunction; they came approximately 1/3 a degree apart. In this picture's foreground stands a Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ telescope. The conjunction had been nicknamed the "Star of Bethlehem." The picture was taken with a Pentax Optio RZ10 camera.
English: This remarkable photo shows the ESO La Silla observatory in the foreground with the planets Venus and Jupiter low in the sky and the Milky Way drifting behind them. Yet it took Zdenek Bardon, the photographer, three nights to capture this stunning image; astrophotographers are subject to the whims of the weather and this photo was no ...
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The 1874 transit of Venus, which took place on 9 December 1874 (01:49 to 06:26 UTC), was the first of the pair of transits of Venus that took place in the 19th century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous pair of transits had taken place in 1761 and 1769, and the next pair would not take place until 2004 ...
English: Detail of Jupiter's atmosphere, as imaged by Voyager 1. Suggested for English Wikipedia:alternative text for images : This view of Jupiter's clouds with the Great Red Spot at top right as brown oval to right of wavy white and brown clouds.
The English name of Venus was originally the ancient Roman name for it. Romans named Venus after their goddess of love , who in turn was based on the ancient Greek goddess of love Aphrodite , [ 271 ] who was herself based on the similar Sumerian religion goddess Inanna (which is Ishtar in Akkadian religion ), all of whom were associated with ...
The term "Solar System" entered the English language by 1704, when John Locke used it to refer to the Sun, planets, and comets as a whole. [82] By then it had been established beyond doubt that planets are other worlds, and stars are other distant suns, so the whole Solar System is actually only a small part of an immensely large universe, and ...
A photo of Venus taken by Mariner 10. During another American flyby in 1967, Mariner 5 measured the strength of Venus's magnetic field. In 1974, Mariner 10 swung by Venus on its way to Mercury and took ultraviolet photographs of the clouds, revealing the extraordinarily high wind speeds in the Venusian atmosphere. Mariner-10 provided the best ...