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Jupiter and Saturn conjunction video 3! *Moon only pictured here to show the scale*

Great Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn 2020, with Moon added to show scale

The Great Conjunction 2020 -- Jupiter & Saturn

Only a Venus Sidereal day is longer than a Venus year!

Selected solar system objects to scale in size, rotation, tilt!

A simple comparison between Earth, Mars and the Moon

Selected solar system objects to scale in size, rotation speed and axial tilt

Here are the planets... with the only two mapped dwarf planets

The actual sizes of planets in our sky relative to the Moon (and eachother) until late 2022

These are apparent in-sky size of solar system objects relative to eachother over the next 2 years

The actual positions of stars in 12 constellations of the Zodiac

An animation to explain the (apparent) retrograde motion of Mars, using actual 2020 planet positions

The astronomical explanation for Mercury retrograde

Planets and dwarf planets to scale in size, rotation speed & axial tilt in distance order from Sun

The rotation periods of the planets cast to a single sphere. Rotations relative to background stars

The relative sidereal rotation periods of planets in 2-D (sidereal=relative to background stars)

The orbit(s) of Saturn's rings

Earth sees the same 'face' of Venus every single time the two planets are closest

Light speed journey to Mars in real time

Light speed to scale in time and space, it's fast but slow

How lunar and solar tides work

Pluto and Charon are a fine example of how bodies orbit the center of mass (barycenter)

The Earth-Moon Barycenter: The Moon doesn't orbit Earth's center and Earth doesn't stay still (3D!)

Everything in the Solar System orbits the center of mass (it's rarely in the center of the Sun!)