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Credit & Copyright: Josh Calcino
Explanation:
The bright light at the end of this country road is actually a remarkably
close conjunction
of two planets.
After sunset on August 27 brilliant Venus and
Jupiter
almost appear as a single celestial beacon in the
night skyscape taken near Lake Wivenhoe, Queensland,
Australia.
A spectacular vertical panorama from the
southern hemisphere,
it shows the central Milky Way near zenith, posed on
top of a pillar of Zodiacal light along the ecliptic plane.
Of course Mars and Saturn are near the ecliptic
too, just below the galaxy's central bulge.
Above and left of a tree on the horizon, fleeting planet
Mercury also adds to the light at the
end of the road.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: conjunction - zodiacal light - Milky Way
Publications with words: conjunction - zodiacal light - Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 29 Á Milky Way over Uluru
- APOD: 2024 May 29 Á Stairway to the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 July 18 Á Milky Way above La Palma Observatory
- APOD: 2023 July 16 Á Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps