{"id":24633,"date":"2021-12-19T05:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24633"},"modified":"2021-12-19T05:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T05:56:39","slug":"planetary-alignment-over-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24633","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Alignment over Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2112\/PlanetsAligned_Finazzi_1080.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>It is not a coincidence that planets line up. That&#8217;s because all of the planets orbit the Sun in (nearly) a single sheet called the plane of the ecliptic. When viewed from inside that plane &#8212; as Earth dwellers are likely to do &#8212; the planets all appear confined to a single band. It is a coincidence, though, when three of the brightest planets all appear in nearly the same direction. Such a coincidence was captured earlier this month. Featured above (right to left), Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter were all imaged together in a line just after sunset, from the San Fermo Hills, Bergamo, Italy. Joining the alignment are Earth&#8217;s Moon, and the position of the more distant Uranus. Bands of clouds streak across the sky toward the setting Sun. As Comet Leonard fades, this planetary alignment &#8212; absent the Moon &#8212; should persist for the rest of the month. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap211219.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not a coincidence that planets line up. That&#8217;s because all of the planets orbit the Sun in (nearly) a single sheet called the plane of the ecliptic. When <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24633\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24634,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633\/revisions\/24634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}