Unfortunately Earth is mostly below the horizon for this one. :(
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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RemindMe: Earth rises above the Earth's horizon, for easy viewing!
I live in a valley so the Earth rises in the north and south
I lead stargazing classes with my city parks, and I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to find earth in the night sky.
I don't know where you're searching, but the earth is usually pretty visible at the horizon.
Idk, bro, I've never seen Earth at the horizon, it's mostly just trees and houses and stuff. Do you have to be in dark skies?
Total vibe right here
And now over to Bobo for today's weather: .... ACK, ACK, WAAAAA, ACK, ACK, AAAAAAA!!!!!!! ... (feces thrown at camera) .... ACK, AAAAHHHHH, AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
And 30% of the time, Bobo nails it.
An extremely rare planetary alignment will take place on February 28, 2025. Don't miss it — an event like this won’t happen again this decade!
In the evening, just after sunset, seven planets — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars — will align in the sky. Four of them (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars) will be easily visible to the naked eye. For Uranus and Neptune, get a pair of binoculars or a small telescope. Saturn will be the most difficult target to see — you'll need to know the exact time for your exact location as the planet hangs close to the Sun.
i hate when people use vague blocks of time to refer to something that we know with 100% certainty.
"YOU WILL NOT BE AWAKE SOMEWHERE WITH THE PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY 12 HOURS FROM NOW, DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING TODAY"
are we talking like, once every decade, once every two decades, once a century? I gotta have a reference frame here.
I'm not so sure about the binoculars part there... I have an 8" dobsonian telescope and I have a hard time finding those two.
I saw Saturn from a suburban street a week or two ago just after sunset, near the moon and Venus, and it was visible, though my elderly mother in law couldn't see it
We were playing a music trivia game and the question was "what planet did david bowie sing about life on?"
And my buddy says "earth?" Lmao
He's not wrong.
It applies to most songs lol
You could argue it applies to all songs in some sense (at least, the ones we've heard).
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He commented that right after texting his gf asking her to call his phone because he can’t find it
I can text people via sms through my cell service provider's web portal even if my phone is off.
The wondrous times we live in.
Years ago, I think I remember seeing a screenshot- could have been from Quora, where someone was asking why we haven’t sent astronauts to the sun.
I lost a pretty big chunk of my faith in humanity that day.
Just fly at night if you worry it's too hot
The sun? But that’s the hottest place on earth
Wait a minute, that's not the order I've learned. Have we been lied to about MVEMJSUNP?
Well, the P is silent.
you're talking about the order from the sun, but that's not necessarily how it has to appear in our sky. It's like how the stars in orion's belt are actually stupidly far from each other, and from their perspective they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Useless red circle.
It's one of your last... sounds like a threat.
I never see Earth in the sky.
You ain't been high enough.
You can see both it and the moon from Mars. So that's fun
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Response: "... Look down."
Aren’t they always on the plane of the elliptic though?
Yeah but you can't always see them all together.
How is that an alignment though? It’s not like MacGuyver or Lara Croft is going to have to stop some baddies from assembling ancient artefacts in a particular room to unleash arcane terrors into the world just because the planets are sort-of visible together in the sky.
It's an alignment because if you look up at it they're in a line. That's what alignment means, Lara Croft and ancient artifacts are optional.
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ecliptic, yes they are
It's right here dude.
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