Three Planets Rock

In the fading darkness sooner than morning time, a tilted triangle looked to balance atop a rock formation off the southern tip of Sicily. Making up the aspects 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, many of the moon’s disk is visible due to the earthshine. Captured on this image on 2022 April 27, Venus (center) and Jupiter (left) are roughly three levels apart — and were headed toward a shut conjunction. Conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter happen about as soon as a 300 and sixty five days and are visible both in the east sooner than damage of day or in the west after sundown. The featured image turned into as soon as taken about an hour sooner than the arrival of the brightest object in Earth’s sky – the Sun.