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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 ...
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.
Download QR code; In other projects ... English: Conjunction of Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Light scattered by the clouds. ... File:Venus, Mars and Jupiter conjunction ...
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's ' photographic revolver '.
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. Below the Great Red Spot are various bands of bluer wavy clouds at smaller scales with smaller ...
Escape stage exploded during Trans-Venus injection; Some pieces re-entered and others remained in Earth orbit — — Venera 9: 4V-1 No. 660: Orbiter and Lander: 8 June 1975: 22 October 1975: 53: Sent back the first (black and white) images of Venus' surface. Landed within a 150-kilometre (93 mi) radius of 31.01° N, 291.64° E.
1704 – John Locke enters the term "Solar System" in the English language, when he used it to refer to the Sun, planets, and comets as a whole. [101] 1705 – Edmond Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of the comet of 1682 and computes its expected path of return in 1757. [102] 1715 – Edmond Halley calculates the shadow path of a solar ...
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