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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Solar System Family Portrait
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 29 Jun, 2022 | Image Credit & Copyright: Alexis Trigo

Posted on 06/29/2022 3:51:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen all of the planets at once? A rare roll-call of planets has been occurring in the morning sky for much of June. The featured fisheye all-sky image, taken a few mornings ago near the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, caught not only the entire planet parade, but the Moon between Mars and Venus. In order, left to right along the ecliptic plane, members of this Solar System family portrait are Earth, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and Earth. To emphasize their locations, Neptune and Uranus have been artificially enhanced. The volcano just below Mercury is Licancabur. In July, Mercury will move into the Sun's glare but reappear a few days later on the evening side. Then, in August, Saturn will drift past the direction opposite the Sun and so become visible at dusk instead of dawn. The next time that all eight planets will be simultaneously visible in the evening sky will be in 2122.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 06/29/2022 3:51:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 06/29/2022 3:51:44 PM PDT 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; AFPhys; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔


3 posted on 06/29/2022 3:52:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hmmm...
This picture must have been taken before Kevin Sorbo arrives to save us from the world-ship...


4 posted on 06/29/2022 3:56:40 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: MtnClimber

I feel like we’re in a hole and just can’t get out of it.


5 posted on 06/29/2022 4:07:24 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

Poor Pluto. I’m still mourning him...


6 posted on 06/29/2022 4:14:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

You don’t need to mourn him. He’s doing just fine, he’s got his own TV channel now…


7 posted on 06/29/2022 4:28:19 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Jamestown1630; PROCON; SunkenCiv
Pluto is the 2nd Amendment of the planets....she clearly meets the definition of a planet/civil right, but modernity has cast aside that eternal definition in favor of political expediency.

When Pluto is outlawed, only outlaws will have Pluto.

You can have Pluto when you pry her from my cold, dead hands.

Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my Pluto.


8 posted on 06/29/2022 4:39:32 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: telescope115

It’s just not the same...*sniff*...


9 posted on 06/29/2022 4:39:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DoodleBob

The guy who killed him is actually kind of funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pbj_llmiMg


10 posted on 06/29/2022 4:51:47 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Just as I suspected...he looks like Sarah Brady.


11 posted on 06/29/2022 4:57:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: MtnClimber

Put a lot of thought into
That Photo!
.
Amazingly Spooky.


12 posted on 06/29/2022 5:23:10 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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