There is a bright light that draws attention to itself low in the eastern sky that shines with a continuous silver glow and two hours later when it rises dramatically in the eastern and southeastern part of the sky, this light is Jupiter, which will appear on a horizon of great size and bright at its closest point to Earth on Monday, It is this point in its orbit that has brought it closer to the Sun since 1963.
According to Space, Jupiter now appears 11% larger and a half times brighter than it did in April 2017, when it was near aphelion (the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun), even with binoculars with seven powers the planets will appear. The client as a small tablet.
A small telescope would show much better, while in larger instruments, Jupiter turns into a series of red, yellow, and brown shadows, along with a host of other telescopic details, and amateur astronomers have been photographing this mighty planet all summer since it approached Earth.
This would make Jupiter’s closest approach to Earth since 1963, after which it would be 367,413.405 miles (591,168.168 km).
Jupiter is 11 times the diameter of Earth and 88,846 miles (142,984 km) wide, and takes about 12 years to complete one trip around the sun.
But if the year of Jupiter is long, and its day is short, and the great planet rotates once in less than 10 hours, for a planet of this size, such a speed of rotation is amazing.
Jupiter also has a faint ring system, although unlike Saturn’s famous rings, which are highly reflective because they’re made of ice, Jupiter’s rings are primarily made up of countless tiny dust particles.
You’ll be able to see three moons on one side of Jupiter (Io, Europa and Callisto), while the fourth moon (Ganymede) is alone on the other side.