Earth’s two nearest neighbors – Venus and Mars – will come closest to one another subsequent week in a celestial occasion known as a ‘planetary conjunction’.
Easily seen with the bare eye and may solely be seen from Earth, a conjunction happens when two planets come shut to one another, regardless that they’re distant from one another.
In the newest conjunction, which is due on July 13, Mars and Venus might be solely 0.5 levels aside (although that is far in precise distance). This sight might be seen in clear sky circumstances within the western sky or horizon shortly after sundown.
Easily seen with the bare eye and may solely be seen from Earth, a conjunction happens when two planets come shut to one another, regardless that they’re distant from one another.
This time, on the evening of July 12, the Moon may even be close to and inside 4 levels of the 2 planets, making it a three-sky-mass conjunction.
Sky gazers and astronomy lovers can begin observing the sky from Thursday and proceed until Tuesday to watch the method of Mars and Venus. Subsequent steady observations may even reveal the space of those planets after July 13.
The Pune-based Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IAA), Bengaluru have invited photograph entries for the occasion, the most effective of which might be printed by the institutes.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
