Watch ... the moon near Mars is seen in the naked eye

The lens of “The Seventh Day” detected the occurrence of a diminishing humping moon near Mars, the red planet in the southeastern horizon, in the phenomenon of viewing with the naked eye.

The astronomical society in Jeddah revealed in a report that Mars is now shining compared to previous months and is getting brighter and is currently classified as the eighth brightest body in the night sky, yet it is not compared to the planet Jupiter, which is 12 times superior to it, where the buyer is classified as the fourth brightest celestial body after the sun And the moon and Venus respectively.

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The report pointed out that it is known that the earth moves faster in its smaller orbit around the sun compared to Mars and Jupiter, so it approaches them day by day, and the brightness of the two planets coincides with that gradually as observed in the sky..

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And after a few months from now – on October 13, 2020 – the earth will be between the sun and Mars, then the red planet will be at its best this year in a phenomenon called convergence and at that time it will be about 16 times brighter than it appears at sunrise.

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In general from 1 to 30 October 2020, Mars will replace Jupiter as the fourth celestial body that illuminates the sky, after the sun, moon, and Venus, respectively.

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Before that, the buyer meeting will take place next Tuesday, July 14, 2020, and he will be in the brightest sky over the earth this year.

Thus it can be observed that the brightness of Mars changes very quickly, while the brightness of Jupiter remains almost constant, because the change between the distance between Earth and Mars is large while the percentage of change in the distance between Earth and Jupiter is still rather small.

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It is worth noting that although the moon and Mars appear somewhat close to the dome of the sky at dawn on Saturday, they are not close to each other in space. The moon is about 399,000 km from Earth, while Mars is about 112 million km away.