Monday, December 01, 2008

Now showing for the next two hours


Quick! Run outside and look, you'll only be able to see this tonight! That's the moon, Venus (below) and Jupiter (right)
"The moon is the brightest, closest and smallest of the three and is 252,000 miles away. Venus, the second brightest, closest and smallest, is 94 million miles away. And big Jupiter is 540 million miles away.

The three celestial objects come together from time to time, but often they are too close to the sun or unite at a time when they aren’t so visible. The next time the three will be as close and visible as this week will be Nov. 18, 2052," said Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.