Saturn Behind The Moon

Saturn Behind the Moon

Image Credit: Peter Patonai (Astroscape Photography)

Happy Solstice 2020!

The evening began with a beautiful sunset:

...though pretty clouds meant Jupiter and Saturn's closest dance was a little fuzzy:

They'd traded places and moved much closer than on Saturday:

This longer Saturday exposure shows Saturn's biggest moon, Titan (arrow), and all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons:

...and here's Jupiter's moons plus Titan (arrow; another arrow points out Amalthea hugging its parent world) tonight:

Happy Great Conjunction Day!

Mars as seen from Hubble, snapped on April 27th through May 6th, 1999.

Image Credit : NASA COMMONS

Saturn like Exo Planet discovered in the habitable zone of another star system by a bunch of relatively amateur astronomers — under the umbrella called Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project. (HEHP)

Watch the video here : https://youtu.be/0A7gEaewOws

While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2,400 light-years away. The name of the supernova remnant comes from its position in the northern constellation of Cygnus (the Swan), where it covers an area 36 times larger than the full Moon. 

Image Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

Question of the day : How far is the Moon from planet Earth?