Credit & Copyright: Osama Fatehi
Explanation:
The early morning planet parade continues.
Visible the world over, the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn
have been lining up in the pre-dawn sky since mid-April.
In the
featured image
taken last month, these planets were captured over the Step
Pyramid of Djoser,
a
UNESCO World Heritage
Site.
Located in the
Saqqara necropolis of
Egypt,
the pyramid was constructed in the 27th century BC and is one of the
oldest pyramids known.
The two-image composite includes a foreground image taken during evening
blue hour,
and a background image captured from the same location the following morning.
The morning planet line-up is
slowly
changing.
At the end of last month, planets
Jupiter and Venus switched places,
while at the end of this month, Jupiter and Mars will switch after passing
within one-degree
of each other.
Of course, this picturesque planetary angular alignment is a coincidence, as
all of these worlds continue to orbit
the Sun as they have for billions of years,
well before even the
ancient Pyramid of Djoser was built.
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