The impression of the solar system artist
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Solar system all the planets are covering the night sky this week. This extraordinary event event will see the sky visible in the Seven alignment of planets or the seven planets known as the “planet parade”.
The eight planets in our solar system is the same as the sun orbit, originally created in the same Waste disk around the sun. Through the day of the day in the sky of the day, it is called ecliptic – it is aligned with this shot, so when the planets appear in the sky, they all appear in the ecliptic. It’s not the perfect line of planets because their orbits are slightly bend, but it’s pretty close.
It’s never more apparent than when aligning planets. Usually, some planets share the night sky, but the unusual alignment of all seven planets will be visible on some evenings around February 28, depending on your location.
The best time to look at the sunset will be able to see all the planets that stretch in an arch, but they will be near Horizon, Jupiter and Uranus except Horizon. These three will continue to hang on most nights, and the sky is completely dark, mercury and Saturduratur It will be sunk under the horizon after Neptune and Venus shortly afterwards.
The main thing that prevents the main thing to be visible all the time – leaving the weather – it is the difference between the orbital periods among the planets. Mercury, closest to the sun, need to complete an orbit in 88 days of land, Neptune, most of the distant planets, is almost 165 years old.
Excellent alignment is possible when the planets are far from the sun, so they are visible at night, and all in the middle of the sky can be seen at the same time. The orbital chement is noticeable. Sometimes there are great alignments in one year, and sometimes it passes without a single one. The similar event will not happen until 2040.
“It’s great to see the interest in creating the parade of the planet,” he says David Armstrong Warwick University, United Kingdom. “Commitment to astronomy, looking at the sky and is a wonderful surprise of our solar system and I encourage anyone interested in getting out of the outside and seeing the planets with their eyes.”
Additional report Alex Wilkins
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