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Jupiter and the moon will become visible shortly after nightfall, but the entire show won't be observable until after 10 p.m. local time, once Mars rises above the horizon.
The crescent moon will appear to align with Venus and nearby Jupiter shortly after sunset on Feb. 23, an alignment that will be visible from the heart of bustling cities to the dark sky parks ...
10th: New moon. 13th: Crescent moon near Jupiter in the west at sunset. 14th: Moon near Pleiades star cluster. 17th: First quarter moon. 18th: Moon near bright star Pollux in Gemini in the evening ...
Europa (Jupiter II), the second of the four Galilean moons, is the second closest to Jupiter and the smallest at 3121.6 kilometers in diameter, which is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon. The name comes from a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa , who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete , though the name did not become widely ...
11th: Moon near bright star Regulus in Leo in the evening sky. 14th: Come view the first quarter Moon and tour the night sky with the Tallahassee Astronomical Society. This FREE event is held ...
A montage of Jupiter and its four largest moons (distance and sizes not to scale) There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits as of 5 February 2024. [1] [note 1] This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. [4]
30th: Moon near Mars in the morning sky before sunrise. 31st: Moon near Jupiter in the morning sky before sunrise. Check out TAS’s events calendar at tallystargazers.org .
The black dot near the top is Io transiting Jupiter. [32] Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments collide with Jupiter — train of fragments view [ 33 ] On July 16, 1994, the first of a series of fragments of the comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which had broken up two years earlier, impacted Jupiter's atmosphere.