The thin crescent Moon joins Beautiful Venus tonight in the twilight sky. Locally, at this hour, the smoke-hazed sky obscures the dim red light that is Mars, also near Moon. Take a peek … it’s a lovely sight. Chart via SkySafari for iPadOS. #moon#planets#mars#venus
Planetary imagers take notice: the coming days deep images of the night side of #Venus in visible light (NOT near-infrared) are important to go after the elusive "ashen light" phenomenon - that, if real, could be triggered by a solar CME following the recent X1.1 flare: the thread https://nitter.net/JohnBarentine/status/1671605181199564801 explains it all.
Depending on where you are, if the sky is clear enough, find the sliver of the moon, then look left and slightly up from it and you’ll see Venus. It’s cool to see. 🌘 #LookUp#space#Venus
This artist's view of Venus is based on ideas of some scientists in the early 20th century. Competing theories pictured #Venus as a hot, lifeless desert or as a cool, moist, habitable #planet. High mountains, swamps, vast oceans, dense water clouds were postulated. Venus was widely thought to be similar in development to #Earth in the Paleozoic era. Painting by Ron Miller.
It has rained every day for about three days. My grass is looking really green this morning. The electricity went out for a few hours last night. Because we have a standby generator, we had to endure a full minute without power. 😂 Getting the generator was one of our better choices albeit, a relatively minor one.
One of my better life's choices was marrying my wife. My wife makes me a better person. There are very few "my choices" anymore, they are our choices.
When around grandchildren, nieces, nephews in their early teens, I find a way to tell them about how the choices they make will in the now will affect their future choices.
“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . .. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.” - Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
The next few nights are a great opportunity to spot the planet #Venus, which is now at its greatest apparent distance from the Sun on the sky. Look high in the west at dusk for the bright "star".
Ce soir la conjonction #Lune-#Venus sera visible depuis l'Europe et l'Afrique. Observez peu après le coucher du Soleil. À 20h UTC (22h locale française) la séparation sera de 3° 19'. La planète Mars sera également visible à gauche de la Lune mais elle est maintenant peu lumineuse et ne sera visible que comme une étoile orangée. Au télescope Vénus apparaîtra comme une petite lune en quartier 🌓.
Now that I have a new home on solarsystem.social, here's a new #introduction!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in France. My research uses the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and geologic evolution. My favorite terrestrial body is the #Moon, but I also work with #Mercury, #Venus, and #Mars. Soon I will need to learn about #Psyche and the icy satellites of #Jupiter!
Starting today I will post a page of my "Good Night(sky) Stories" each #Moonday. It's a visual journey through our solar system and beyond, combining cute cartoons with scientific facts and trite humor. Basically the result of an artist and an astrophysicist distracting themselves during boring meetings.
German version: https://mastodon.art/@eyeling/109501818170699384 #sciart#scicomm#astronomy#astrodon
With the influx of new mastodon users, here's an #introduction so that people can find me!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in Paris, France. My research involves using the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and evolution. Most of my work has been with the #Moon and #Mars, but I also dabble with #Mercury, #Venus, and sometimes the #asteroids and icy satellites of #Jupiter.
Vor sechs Jahren haben ein Astrophysiker und ich angefangen, uns langweilige Konferenzen mit Spinnerein zu vertreiben. Das Ergebnis waren astrophilosophische Cartoons, die jetzt bald gebunden erscheinen werden. Hier schonmal ein erster Blick. #Astronomie#astrocomic#illustration#MastoArt
(English version in the works, too)