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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
American Thinker ^ | 6 Jan, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)

Posted on 01/06/2022 1:38:30 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: That's not a young crescent Moon posing behind cathedral towers after sunset. It's Venus in a crescent phase. About 40 million kilometers away and about 2 percent illuminated by sunlight, it was captured with camera and telephoto lens in this series of exposures as it set in western skies on January 1 from Veszprem, Hungary. The bright celestial beacon was languishing in the evening twilight, its days as the Evening Star coming to a close as 2022 began. But it was also growing larger in apparent size and becoming an ever thinner crescent in telescopic views. Heading toward a (non-judgemental) inferior conjunction, the inner planet will be positioned between Earth and Sun on January 9 and generally lost from view in the solar glare. A crescent Venus will soon reappear though. Rising in the east by mid-month just before the Sun as the brilliant Morning Star.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 01/06/2022 1:38:30 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 01/06/2022 1:38:48 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; BBB333; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 01/06/2022 1:39:30 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I’m going to miss Venus.

Where are we going to get women from now?


4 posted on 01/06/2022 2:13:54 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

Spectacular.


5 posted on 01/06/2022 2:21:45 PM PST by viewfromthefrontier
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To: DannyTN

Planet Snu-Snu


6 posted on 01/06/2022 2:37:06 PM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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So I looked that up and found this...

“The Amazonians are a race of gigantic, cavewomen like humanoids from the Planet Amazonia. They all worship the Femputer. When the Planet Express crew visits Amazonia, The Femputer sentences the men to execution by “snu-snu”, which is the Amazonian term for sexual intercourse.”

If you have to go, might as well be with a smile.


7 posted on 01/06/2022 2:43:18 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
"I'm your Venus now, Danny."

"So, wanna get a pizza?"

8 posted on 01/06/2022 3:02:00 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
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To: DannyTN
Where are we going to get women from now?

Transgenders from Mars???

9 posted on 01/06/2022 3:16:28 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, transgenders are from Uranus.


10 posted on 01/06/2022 3:24:20 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Beautiful!


11 posted on 01/06/2022 3:33:50 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

This thread is veering toward the gutter!


12 posted on 01/06/2022 3:46:44 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I’m actually surprised it took that long.


13 posted on 01/06/2022 3:51:12 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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I’m actually surprised it took that long.

Yea, there's that.

14 posted on 01/06/2022 3:52:46 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

…and drummers are from Pluto. From the movie, Still Crazy.


15 posted on 01/06/2022 3:52:47 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: DannyTN; ExGeeEye

There’s another version of that story, commonly told as a joke, involving three male adventurers who get lost in the jungle and are captured by a tribe of primitive men. They are accused of being spies, tried and found guilty, and then given a choice of sentence, “Buff Buff“, Or death. The first guy chooses buff buff and gets roughly buggered by a big tribesman. The second guy, seeing the first guy’s terrible distress, is torn between buff buff and death, but ultimately chooses buff buff. He too is roughly buggered. So the third guy chooses death, and the chief of the tribe proclaims, “OK, death by buff buff!”

Hey, I didn’t write the joke.


16 posted on 01/06/2022 4:51:52 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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