Instituto de Observaciones Científicas y Cosmológicas

18/06/2026

UNA VISTA EXTRAORDINARIA… la Luna
Creciente junto al planeta Venus, aunque fue lamentablemente las condiciones atmosféricas para el momento de la ocultación planetaria de la Luna al planeta Venus, fue posible al límite observar este encuentro. El registro fotográfico fue realizado con un telescopio reflector Orion
SkyQuest XT8 203mm/ 1000mm y IPhone 16 con sensibilidad ISO1000 y exposición de 1/9s.
Edición digital Php y Gimp. Valencia, Edo Carabobo. Venezuela

17/06/2026

UN HERMOSO ATARDECER… la vista privilegiada de la Luna Creciente junto al planeta Venus. 😍🌌

16/06/2026

Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury now form an equally spaced line in twilight, 7° from planet to planet. The thin crescent Moon joins them, hanging between Jupiter and Mercury.
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16/06/2026

Sky This Week: June 12 to 19
The Moon skims past several planets and stars; plus, view asteroids, nebulae, and more in the sky this week.

Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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13/06/2026

Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury (APOD: 2026 Jun 12)
Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260612.html

Explanation: To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won't need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you'll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In fact, on June 9 the two brightest planets were in close conjunction, separated on the sky by less than 2 degrees from our perspective. Since (brighter) inner planet Venus orbits the Sun faster than outer planet Jupiter, it catches up with and passes the outer planet along the ecliptic roughly every 13 months. But every three years or so their resulting conjunction can be viewed far enough from the Sun to be easily seen in Earth's twilight skies. On June 9, the two celestial beacon's close "cosmic kiss" was captured here next to the two large standing stones at the cove within a 4,000 year old stone circle at Avebury, UK. Larger than Stonehenge, the Avebury henge and stone circle complex is also recognized as one of the most significant neolithic ceremonial sites on planet Earth.

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Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=260612

08/06/2026

Venus and Jupiter are almost their closest together this evening, 1.8° apart . . . tomorrow they'll be in conjunction.
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05/06/2026

The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies (APOD: 2026 Jun 05)
Image Credit & Copyright: Rafael Sampaio
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260605.html

Explanation: Within our own Milky Way galaxy, two bright, spiky stars stand like sentinels in the foreground of this cosmic snapshot. Far beyond them are the galaxies of the Hydra Cluster. In fact, while the spiky foreground stars are hundreds of light-years distant, the Hydra Cluster galaxies are well over 100 million light-years away. Three large galaxies near the cluster center, two yellow ellipticals (NGC 3311, NGC 3309) and one prominent blue spiral (NGC 3312), are the dominant galaxies, each about 150,000 light-years in diameter. An intriguing overlapping galaxy pair cataloged as NGC 3314 lies above and left of NGC 3312. Also known as Abell 1060, the Hydra galaxy cluster is one of three large galaxy clusters within 200 million light-years of the Milky Way. In the nearby universe, galaxies are gravitationally bound into clusters which themselves are loosely bound into superclusters. Superclusters in turn are seen to align over even larger scales.

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Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=260605

03/06/2026

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

ES UNA HERMOSA NOCHE DE LUNA… ADIÓS MAYO. La Luna Azul de 2026 fue hoy 31 de mayo de 2026 a las 08:45 GMT. CIERTAMENTE NO ES AZUL. Se llama Luna Azul porque es la segunda Luna Llena en un mismo mes del calendario, después de la Luna Llena del 1 de mayo. También fue la Luna Llena más pequeña de 2026. Astronómicamente, la Luna Azul de hoy 31 de mayo de 2026 alcanzará su máxima iluminación en la constelación de Escorpio antes de entrar en Ofiuco, con un aspecto de aproximadamente 5,5% más pequeña y 10,5% menos brillante que una Luna Llena promedio. En la práctica, este cambio es bastante sutil, por lo que la mayoría de los observadores no notará nada inusual con solo mirarla. En esta imagen de falso color mineralizado, se destaca el alto contraste de su superficie.BONITA NOCHE PARA TODOS