File:The Moon in Conjunction with Venus and Jupiter.jpg
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English: This dramatic triptych shows the Moon rise from left to right through the night sky over ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory at Paranal in northern Chile. Already aloft in the heavens and glowing in the centre of the image is Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbour. Shining to Venus’s right, the giant, though more distant planet, Jupiter appears as a small orb that seems to rotate around Venus as time passes. Such apparent celestial near misses — although the heavenly bodies are actually tens to hundreds of millions of kilometres apart — are called conjunctions. Still other sights delight in the sky over Paranal. The radiant, reddish plane of the Milky Way smoulders on the horizon, with massive bands of dust giving this bright region a mottled complexion. On the ground, an 8.2-metre VLT Unit Telescope on the right and a 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescope to the left silently witness the splendour above, while probing the sky to address some of astronomy’s remaining mysteries.
Français : Ce tryptique saisissant montre, chronologiquement de gauche à droite, la Lune se levant derrière le Very Large Telescope (VLT) dans le ciel nocturne de l'Observatoire de Cerro Paranal, nord Chili. Venus, plus proche voisin planétaire de la Terre, brille dans un halo bleuté presque immobile entre les images. La géante gazeuse Jupiter parait petite, et semble tourner autour de Venus dans le sens horaire. Ces rencontres céleste apparentes — ces astres sont en fait distants de centaines de millions de kilomètres — s'appellent conjonctions. D'autres détails délectent les yeux dans le ciel de Paranal. Ainsi la Voie lactée baigne l'horizon d'une lumière rougeâtre, des formations de poussière massives donnant à cette région du ciel une texture granuleuse. Au sol, un des télescope de 8,2 m du VLT et un auxiliaire de 1,8 m à sa gauche semble être des spectateurs de ce ballet céleste, alors qu'ils sondent en fait le ciel pour résoudre les mystères restant de l'astronomie. |
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| Author | ESO/Y. Beletsky |
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