Sky builds faces Bashny.Net

On Monday, the first day of December, 2008, the inhabitants of the whole earth could observe an unusual astronomical phenomenon. In the sky a few hours there was a real space smiley formed from the moon and two planets - Jupiter and Venus.





Best of all, this phenomenon has been seen in Australia, where the planet formed an almost perfect little face:)



The phenomenon lasted for several hours, from 9 am to 11 pm local time. Moon, Jupiter and Venus are the brightest objects in the starry sky. So smiley could be distinguished with the naked eye. This happens very rarely.



Last time something like this could be observed April 23, 1998. But then, at first, appeared in the sky, "sad" smiley - with an inverted "smile". And secondly, this phenomenon no one paid much attention, except for astronomers.



The next time the moon will shine smiley over Australia in the early morning (or night) July 21, 2036. What about other parts of the world learn from local astronomers.



However, unlike the Australians and Americans are less fortunate celestial bodies showed them a sad face at



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