Amateur Astronomer captures the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, transiting the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa.



    by AtomicCypher

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    1. One of the most beautiful objects ever known to man, and then there’s a monument to greed and slavery right in front of it. Awesome.

    2. Excellent_Regret4141 on

      Or it’s an alien space ship disguised as Jupiter, I mean fool me once aliens shame on me but to quote The Who “I won’t get fooled again”

    3. Sorry, but I have to… It’s not transiting the building, it’s being occulted by the building.

    4. Long_TimeRunning on

      Excuse my ignorance on the topic but is what we’re seeing there from a “long time ago” because of how long it takes light to get to us?

    5. I hope you all understand that you can make the same thing happen every single night that Jupiter is up just by positioning your telescope in the right place.
      Still, it is always cool to see the Galilean Moons. A good set of binoculars will show them too.

    6. Is this something celebrated there? Jupiter passing that building? Or was the light show for something else?

    7. Kermit-the-Frog_ on

      I once watched Jupiter through a similar telescope near a tall radio tower. As it passed behind the tower, it happened to pass directly behind one of the bulbs of the blinking red lights and we could see the filament as Jupiter passed behind it.

    8. Fuck the Burj Khalifa, now Jupiter and all its moons that’s stellar. The moons have the coolest names Europa, Io, Ganymede…

    9. BlackThundaCat on

      This dudes enthusiasm for the sky is certainly contagious.

      On another note, I can only imagine what the sky looked like when there was zero light pollution. Must have been an incredible sight to see.

    10. He said jupiters diameter is 11x the diameter of the earth??? That’s a huge undercalculation right??

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