Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2020 April 2
    [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest
                        resolution version available.

                       Venus and the Pleiades in April
   Digital Illustration Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Fred Espenak ([5]Bifrost
                          Astronomical Observatory)

   Explanation: Venus is currently the brilliant evening star. [6]Shared
   around world, in tonight's sky Venus will begin to wander across the
   face of the lovely Pleiades star cluster. This digital sky map
   illustrates the path of the [7]inner planet as the beautiful
   conjunction evolves, showing its position on the sky over the next few
   days. The field of view shown is appropriate for binocular equipped
   [8]skygazers but the star cluster and planet are easily seen with the
   naked-eye. [9]As viewed from [10]our fair planet, Venus [11]passed in
   front of the stars of the Seven Sisters 8 years ago, and will again 8
   years hence. In fact, orbiting the Sun 13 Venus years are almost equal
   to 8 years on planet Earth. So we can expect our [12]sister planet to
   visit nearly the same place in our sky every 8 years.

                     Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space
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    Authors & editors: [24]Robert Nemiroff ([25]MTU) & [26]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([27]UMCP)
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                A service of: [30]ASD at [31]NASA / [32]GSFC
                           & [33]Michigan Tech. U.

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