Venus is currently the brilliant
evening star. 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 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 skygazers but
the star cluster and planet are easily seen with the naked-eye. As viewed from our fair planet,
Venus 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 sister planet to
visit nearly the same place in our sky every 8 years.
Image & info via APOD
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