At dawn, the sky appears 2 merging planets

According to NASA, it will be an incomplete merger because the planets are still 0.2 degrees apart, but almost with the naked eye, we will see 2 objects completely forming a mass. Those are Venus and Jupiter, two of the easiest astronomical objects in the sky, so you won’t have any trouble seeing them.

This spectacular scene continued to repeat at dawn on May 1, the two planets were still slightly apart but the positions would be reversed, according to the report. Science Alert.

NASA’s graphic image depicts the future scene from the perspective of Huntsville, Alabama – USA, in which the brightest object in the sky is the two planets merging – Photo: NASA

Of course, Venus and Jupiter are not really merging literally, but only from the perspective of Earth people, when they accidentally align in the direction of our observation.

This is the second planetary conjunction that Earthlings have the opportunity to observe in April. Mars and Saturn previously had such a spectacular merger.

According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the merger at dawn on April 30 is an “extremely close” combination and worth admiring. If you have binoculars or a telescope, you can see them more clearly, even some of Jupiter’s moons can be seen through a telescope.

According to Earth Sky, Venus will have an illuminance of -4 and Jupiter of -2.1, which is sufficient for clear observation. The best time to observe is 1 hour before dawn. You will also not be afraid of the moonlight covering the planets because this is the time of the new moon.

According to NASA’s forecast, a more spectacular merger will occur on June 24: all the other planets of the Sun will align as seen from Earth, almost merging into 1″ single “superplanet”. Most planets are visible to the naked eye, you will only need a telescope for Uranus and Neptune.

According to Anh Thu