In the coming weeks this beautiful planet will be visible in the night sky of Israel
By: Dr. Noah Brosh
The coming period may give rise to multiple reports of the appearance of UFOs.
People who watch the sky will see not once but twice a very luminous body
hovering above the western horizon. If the clouds disperse - the strange object will be seen
to them as if he was flying very fast.
To prevent such reports from untrained sailors, we inform
Now: What you will see is the planet Venus. He starts to look again
In the evening sky and his appearance will be truly impressive.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth, and also closer to the Sun than
Earth. Because of this proximity, its orbit around the sun is gone
Move it away from the direction where the sun is visible. Due to this, the position of Venus in the sky
It is always close to the position of the sun: this planet can be seen for a long time
Shortly after sunset, on the western horizon. or shortly before sunrise
The sun, in the eastern horizon.
In addition, Venus receives more radiation from the Sun than the Earth - and
returns a large part of that radiation to space. For this reason, he seems to us
very bright
At the end of this month, Venus is an impressive celestial body, setting for about an hour and a half
after sunset In May, Venus will move away from the Sun and join the three
Other planets - Mars and Saturn on the one hand, and Mercury on the other
– to create an impressive quartet of planets.
The maximum distance between Venus and the Sun, as seen from Earth, will be
at the end of summer. After that, Venus will begin to approach the Sun again, and in October
will re-enter the glow of the setting sun.
This impressive appearance of Venus is now joined by a comet, given
See it with ordinary field binoculars and even with a naked eye, if the observation place is dark
especially.
This comet was discovered at the beginning of February by amateur astronomers
The Chinese Kaoru Yikia, and Daqin Zhang and got the name of both. He is the comet
The sixth that the .58-year-old Yakia discovers near the end of February, reports have accumulated
More from the observations made of the new comet, and it turned out that its orbit is around
The sun corresponds to a comet that was first seen in 1661. It is, therefore,
in a return visit of the heavenly body. He promises to be particularly impressive.
A comet is a dirty glacier - a mass of ice-water and frozen gases
others where stone blocks of different sizes are mixed. Its diameter is a few kilometers or
Even tens of kilometers. When the comet approaches the sun, as is happening now with
Comet Yikia-Zhang, the heat it rises and some of the gas and dust trapped in it,
is released into space. The radiation and the stream of particles from the sun push the material
which is emitted in the opposite direction from the In this way, a tail of material is formed, which follows
after the comet in its movement in space.
The current comet shows a lot of activity in ejecting matter. That's why the researchers are watching
that his appearance will now be most impressive.
In the middle of March, the comet is visible in the western part of the sky. he arrived
to the point closest to the sun on March 18. Its distance from the sun was then
About 76 million km - half the distance of Venus from the Sun.
But the most impressive sight of the "Chinese" comet for Israeli curious people,
Expected to be in the first half of April. So the comet will be seen before sunrise
The sun, in the eastern part of the sky, when it will pass through the constellations
around the North Star. Its brightness is expected to be maximum then. Maybe then
It will be possible to notice the tail even with the naked eye, without needing binoculars.
