Comet, Planet, Moon

Posted on April 30, 2024  •  1 minutes  • 129 words

图文来源自：nasa. copyright: Juan Carlos Casado

Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month.The most familiar was , seen on the upper left in a crescent .The rest of the Moon was by sunlight first reflected by .The bright planet , the largest planet in , is seen to the upper left. Most unusual was , below the Moon and showing a stubby dust tail on the right but an ion . The featured image, a composite of several images taken consecutively at the same location and with the same camera, was taken near the village of , in ’s . Comet Pons-Brooks passed its closest to last week and is now dimming as it and returns to the outer Solar System.