Tag: Mercury-Jupiter Conjunction

A Mini Morning Planet Parade, and the Absent Moon Lets Us See Spring Galaxies and Some Small Comets!

This Digital Sky survey image shows the Antenna Galaxies aka NGC 4038, 4039 in the constellation of Corvus, which shines brightly in the lower part of the southern sky on early June evenings. The bright segments are the cores of two galaxies in the process of merging by mutual gravitational attraction. Curved streams of stars…
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The Waxing Moon Meets Mars and Joins Gemini While Crossing the Sacred Hoop and We Wave Farewell to Jupiter and Hello to Mercury While Venus Vaults Higher!

This spectacular image by my friend Andrea Girones was taken recently at Morant’s Curve, Alberta using a DSLR with a 20mm lens on a star tracking mount. It captures the arc of faintly glowing reddish hydrogen gas around Orion and the nimbus around his head (at left), the bright compact Rosette Nebula (upper left), Mars…
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