Copyright:Josh Dury
中文翻譯:
這個月，我們可以看到金星（Venus）和木星（Jupiter）一起出現在天空中！只需要在日落後抬頭看，就能看到它們在西方的天際線上慢慢出現。事實上，6月9日，這兩顆最亮的行星非常接近，它們在天空中之間的距離不到2度！金星因為離太陽比較近，運行速度比木星快，所以大約每13個月它就會追上並超過木星。但每三年左右，這樣的相遇就能在距離太陽足夠遠的地方被輕易看到。6月9日，我們能在英國的艾夫伯里（Avebury）看到這兩顆星星在4000年歷史的石環旁邊親密相依的樣子。艾夫伯里比史通亨（Stonehenge）還要大，是地球上最重要的新石器時代儀式場所之一。
原文:
To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won’t need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you’ll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In fact, on June 9 the two brightest planets were in close conjunction, separated on the sky by less than 2 degrees from our perspective. Since (brighter) inner planet Venus orbits the Sun faster than outer planet Jupiter, it catches up with and passes the outer planet along the ecliptic roughly every 13 months. But every three years or so their resulting conjunction can be viewed far enough from the Sun to be easily seen in Earth’s twilight skies. On June 9, the two celestial beacon’s close “cosmic kiss” was captured here next to the two large standing stones at the cove within a 4,000 year old stone circle at Avebury, UK. Larger than Stonehenge, the Avebury henge and stone circle complex is also recognized as one of the most significant neolithic ceremonial sites on planet Earth.
來源:NASA每日圖片
