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Anonymous ID: fbc2f6 Jan. 11, 2025, 7:25 a.m. No.22334686   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4692 >>4752 >>4767

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

January 11, 2025

 

An Evening Sky Full of Planets

 

Only Mercury is missing from a Solar System parade of planets in this early evening skyscape. Rising nearly opposite the Sun, bright Mars is at the far left. The other naked-eye planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus, can also be spotted, with the the position of too-faint Uranus and Neptune marked near the arcing trace of the ecliptic plane. On the far right and close to the western horizon after sunset is a young crescent Moon whose surface is partly illuminated by earthshine. In the foreground of the composite panorama captured on 2 January, planet Earth is represented by Mount Etna's lower Silvestri Crater. Of course Earth's early evening skies are full of planets for the entire month of January. On 13 January, a nearly Full Moon will appear to pass in front of Mars for skywatchers in the continental U.S. and Eastern Canada.

 

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html