ok,check this out.the star nearest to our moon tonight .is jupiter

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKVas1Qozo4


sta-arrrrrrr? that's what they call you. ffs.

And through Hubble's eye you can see a galaxy 32 billion light years away. I wonder what sort of scale you'd have to go to to do a Bunny Warren, Fletcher and Mr Barraclough and his apple, football and satsuma scale model? Johannesburg indeed.

small, far away.

very interesting brassie ill have a look

Jupiter is big but the small distance between the moon and Jupiter is over 500 million miles.so you can get a scale of distance between stars for future reference .but remember some stars are billions of miles behind other stars.

Are stars we are seeing now ,Not all Long gone ?

What's always amazed me is that apparently, some of the stars we see no longer exist.

As light travels at 186,000 miles per second, that means in a year, light has travelled :-

186,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 miles.

And scientists assert, that the light we are seeing now from some stars, are from ones  that ceased to exist at the time when dinosaurs walked the earth. But the light we are now seeing, has only just reached us.

If this is true, that Is a distance that is just mind blowing ! The brain just cannot comprehend such a scale.

All those astronomers out there... yet cannot spot the alien armada? tricky aliens.

Jupiter's been pretty much in it's current position relative to Earth for months now.

Also, it's a planet - not a star.  The full moon is on Saturday night and I'm not sure how close it will appear to Jupiter ... I'm in my kip early during the week.  Should be quite close, I think

Finally, stars twinkle - planets don't.  You'll see Mars (the red planet (which doesn't twinkle either)) low in the south-eastern skies when it's dark ... at least you could a few night's ago.  I've not looked lately to note its current position.

HTH

The moon will be much further separated from Jupiter now until 10/11th of next month. It will however appear close to Mars and Saturn on 21-23 this weekend.

Mars reaches opposition on 22nd and there's a short clip about it here
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36337718

There's normally a hoax goes around about Mars appearing as large as the moon at opposition. It's not true of course, you need a telescope to stand any chance of seeing Mars surface detail, and it's difficult even then.