conjunction / event / open cluster / planets
Next 2 June 2023 Mars, the Red Planet, will shine perfectly aligned with the famous Messier 44 open star cluster, also known as the Beehive (and Praesepe). We will share this beautiful vision with...
conjunction / event / open cluster / planets
Next 9 May 2023, Venus, the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon, will shine just 1.5 degrees apart from the wonderful Messier 35 open star cluster in Gemini. We will share...
We managed to capture Venus and the Pleiades while they are offering a memorable show at sunset. Enjoy these images, ready to join our live, online feed! The image above comes from the average...
conjunction / event / open cluster / planets
Next 11 Apr. 2023, the bright planet Venus will shine less than three degrees from the wonderful Pleiades star cluster. On the same evening, Mercury will be at its easternmost elongation from the Sun....
conjunction / constellations / open cluster / planets / Stars / the Moon
Yesterday’s evening, at sunset, the western sky offered a stunning show: a sharp Moon crescent met planet Venus, right now shining at its brightest. The legendary Aldebaran and the Pleiades joined the parade and...
Il pianeta Venere, l’astro più brillante di queste sere, transita tra le Pleiadi, il più celebre ammasso stellare del cielo, per una visione indimenticabile. Il Virtual Telescope Project vi mostra la spettacolare, rara congiunzione...
conjunction / event / open cluster / planets
Next April, after 8 years, planet Venus will shine among the stars of the Pleiades, one of the most beautiful star clusters out there. It will be a true “Cosmic Hug”, a superb show...
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner made a nice conjunction early this morning, to celebrate both its perihelion (minimum distance from the Sun) and its large flyby with the our Planet. While surfing the skies, the comet met...
Among the largest diffuse nebulae we can observe, NGC 2237 is well-known with its “Rosette” nickname, because of its complex shape. The image above comes from the average of 20, 120-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely...
Last night, even if the sky was not at its best, we managed to take several images of comet C/2014 Jacques via the Virtual Telescope, using all the telescopes available, providing different scales and...
On its journey across the stars, comet c/2014 E2 Jacques is apparently meeting several deep sky objects. We managed to capture a snapshot of the comet while it was in the same sky spot...
The Lagoon Nebula, in Sagittarius, is one of the finest deep sky objects out there. It is an active star forming region and many suns are already born from this giant gas cloud....
Among the most studied nebulae in the sky, the region of the Messier 16, in Serpents, is very spectacular. A young family of stars, the open cluster NGC 6611, is born from the large cloud...
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