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After the sun set and left beautiful red clouds behind the hermitage of Sant Sebastià, as we see in the Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia, the crescent moon appeared in the shape of a face as it was hidden by the high voltage tower.
Near the moon, we have been able to observe Saturn with its ring and, to the east, Jupiter with its four visible satellites. The beautiful spectacle of the sky, with the candlelight, the crescent moon and some planets after yesterday’s sunset in Vic, capital of the Osona region.
Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system from the sun and the only one with a ring system visible from Earth. It is the second largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter and Galileo was the first to observe its rings in 1610. The particles that make up Saturn’s rings rotate at a speed of 48,000 kilometers per hour.
Four satellites of the largest planet in the solar system, 318 times larger than Earth, are sometimes seen. It is the oldest planet in the solar system and also older than the sun. Jupiter is a massive gaseous body, made up mainly of hydrogen and helium.
The four main satellites of Jupiter were discovered by Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642), the great Italian astronomer, engineer, philosopher, mathematician and physicist. An eminent figure of the Renaissance. In addition to these four satellites, a total of 79 have been discovered.
