Skygazers, this is definitely a sight worth waking up early for
The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking on October 4 2018.The silver lining of travel bans is that there's been less air traffic - allowing the sky to show off quite magnificently during lockdown.
The ISS is a unique space laboratory which has been continuously occupied by astronauts and cosmonauts since late 2000. According totest bed for technologies and allows us to study the effects of long-term space flight on humans”. The ISS will start to appear at about 10 degrees above the northwestern horizon. It'll pass"very close" to Jupiter and Saturn before disappearing towards the southeastern horizon.
Both passes will be visible to the naked eye with the ISS appearing as a bright light moving from one end of the sky to the other, travelling at a speed of 28,000km/h.
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