This is a brilliant picture of Earth's sister planet, Venus. It was taken on April 2nd in Portal, Arizona. It was taken as Venus crossed paths with the Pleiades, another set of very bright stars. The fact that the Pleiades are normally considered very bright stars in the sky shows just how brilliant Venus appears on this night. The last similar conjunction of Venus and Pleiades occurred nearly 8 years ago, and as it did then, Venus will continue on to cross paths with the disk of the Sun in June.
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