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Credit & Copyright: Mike Salway
Explanation:
At sunset, Monday's western sky showed off stunning colors
and dramatic clouds reflected in
Brisbane Water on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
It also featured the
remarkable conjunction
of the crescent Moon,
Venus, and Jupiter forming a twilight smiley face.
While the gathering of the two bright planets and Moon
awed skygazers
around planet Earth, astronomer Mike Salway
reports taking special pains to record
this gorgeous view,
braving mosquitos and rain squalls along a soggy shore.
His southern hemisphere
perspective finds brilliant Venus at the highest point
in the celestial grouping.
For now, a bright pairing of Venus and Jupiter continues
to dominate the western horizon after sunset but the Moon has
moved on and tonight is near its
first quarter phase.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Venus - Jupiter - Moon
Publications with words: Venus - Jupiter - Moon
See also:
- APOD: 2026 January 6 Á Jupiters Clouds in High Definition from Juno
- APOD: 2025 November 12 Á A Super Lunar Corona
- APOD: 2025 November 11 Á Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
- Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus
- APOD: 2025 December 14 Á Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
- Orion and the Ocean of Storms
- Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater