That's why you should watch the sky tonight

March will appear bigger than it has been for years.


You couldhave seen the "super-blood", " or witness of the spectacular showit's the shower Geminid MeteorBut tonight, the headlights of the sky are all on Mars.

Mars and earth orbit the sun, but they do it at different distances and speeds. Every two years, our planet gets in sandwich between the sun and March in a straight line, a phenomenon known as "opposition". Thanks to the solar system dance this year, March is currently the closest to the land since 2003.

Because the current opposition also coincides with the full moon of July, some parts of the world are deprived of the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century, which is unfortunately not visible in the United States.

When the opposition occurred in 2003, March was only 34.6 million kilometers from the land, the nearest she had been 60,000 years old, in a record that will no longer be broken up to August 28, 2287,According to NASA. At 4 o'clock in the morning Tuesday, he struck his point of more than 35.8 million kilometers from being exact, which is much less than its average distance of about 140 million miles. Although it's farther later tonight, it means that it can still appear up to five times larger and twice as long as usual.

To have a good look, all you have to do is look in the sky and watching a reddish orchard hanging under the moon, although the use of a pair of binoculars certainly improves your view. But, if you do not catch it, there will inevitably be a large number of photos on social media, especially since March, the opposition officially started last Friday.

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