November 14, 2023
The oldest light in the universe still hums faintly through space, a relic of the beginning itself.
Three Planets Rock
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APOD published November 14, 2023. Credit: Giovanni Passalacqua; Text: Liz Coelho (Pikes Peak). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
In the fading darkness before dawn, a tilted triangle appeared to balance atop a rock formation off the southern tip of Sicily. Making up the points of the triangle are three of the four brightest objects visible in Earth’s sky: Jupiter, Venus and the Moon. Though a thin waning crescent, most of the moon’s disk is visible due to earthshine. Captured in this image on 2022 April 27, Venus (center) and Jupiter (left) are roughly three degrees apart -- and were headed toward a close conjunction. Conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter occur about once a year and are visible either in the east before sunrise or in the west after sunset. The featured image was taken about an hour before the arrival of the brightest object in Earth’s sky – the Sun.
Image credit: Giovanni Passalacqua; Text: Liz Coelho (Pikes Peak)