The sky has special surprises in store for us this week. Not only were we treated to the Northern Lights in recent days, we also see another special phenomenon. For example, planets Venus and Jupiter appear as two bright points of light in the sky.
There is a good chance that you have already seen them in the past few days: the two dots, which almost seem to touch. They seem, because in reality they are hundreds of millions of kilometers apart, astronomer Theo Jurriens told the NOS.
He compares it to a photo perspective. “Imagine: you are standing on the Groningen Wadden coast and in the distance you see a lighthouse on one of the islands. If someone then takes a photo of you with the lighthouse in the background, it seems that the lighthouse is very close to you. But In reality, of course, that’s not the case.”
Optical illusion or not, it is certainly a special phenomenon. For example, we have to wait until 2040 before the planets are so ‘close’ to each other again. And so many people from Brabant captured the bright spots. Below is a selection of the most special images.
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