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The closest encounter to the Sun so far predicted is the low-mass orange dwarf star Gliese 710 / HIP 89825 with roughly 60% the mass of the Sun. [4] It is currently predicted to pass 0.1696 ± 0.0065 ly (10 635 ± 500 au) from the Sun in 1.290 ± 0.04 million years from the present, close enough to significantly disturb the Solar System's Oort ...
The best nights of all of 2022 to see Jupiter in the night sky are about to take place as the planet takes center stage in the night sky, a showing unlike any other in nearly six decades.
The first star to have its distance to Earth measured after the Sun. ... Also the sixth-nearest stellar system to the Solar System and the brightest star in the night ...
Jupiter 21.2° East October 28, 2006 16:32:15 Mercury 3°43' south of Jupiter 19.1° East November 7, 2006 13:36:58 Mercury 1°14' south of Venus 2.8° East November 11, 2006 17:51:38 Mercury 39' north of Mars 6.2° West November 15, 2006 22:52:15 Venus 27' south of Jupiter 4.8° East December 9, 2006 20:17:18 Mercury 1°02' north of Mars
Near-Earth asteroid (285263) 1998 QE 2 will pass Earth at a distance of 0.038 AU (5.7 million km; 3.5 million mi). [61] 2221 Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn: 2223 December 2 At 12:39 UTC, Mars will occult Jupiter, this comes after a gap of 836 Earth years. [31] [42] 2227 Pluto's orbit takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune. [62] 2238/2239
The planets Venus, bottom, and Jupiter, top, light the sky above Matthews, N.C., Monday, June 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) Stargazers should prepare to lose sleep on Tuesday, Aug. 12, as two ...
The closest in the past 1,000 years was in 1761, when Mars and Jupiter appeared to the naked eye as a single bright object, according to Giorgini. Looking ahead, the year 2348 will be almost as close.
2 AU [c] 2.99×10 8: The average diameter of the orbit of the Earth relative to the Sun. Encompasses the Sun, Mercury and Venus. [18] Inner Solar System ~6.54 AU 9.78×10 8: Encompasses the Sun, the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) and the asteroid belt. Cited distance is the 2:1 resonance with Jupiter, which marks the outer limit of ...