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Venus and the Pleiades in the sky

Added	Sun, 05/04/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sun, 05/04/2020
Версии	The heavenly bodies

While humanity is trying to understand how to deal with global warming, pandemics, and irregular in energy prices, the universe continues to live the unfathomable and beautiful in its manner of life. Science to the best of their resources continues to observe space phenomena, and one of them took place this week.

In particular, in the framework of the rare compound, occurring once every eight earth years, Venus has passed through a star cluster the Pleiades.

In the succinct words of one of the observers of this spectacle of Steven Rosenow, who made beautiful pictures of the phenomenon, "planet wonderfully danced last night on a background star cluster of the Pleiades. Clear sky at this time in the Bay area of Puget Sound has provided scientists and astronomers-fans a great chance to witness a rare cosmic event."

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