Can Earth be seen from Jupiter?

Which planets are visible to the naked eye from Earth? Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible for much of the year. Neptune and Uranus are not visible - and of course the eighth planet in our solar system is Earth itself.
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Can you see Earth from Saturn?

Earth can be seen as a point of light between Saturn's icy rings in this photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Can you see Jupiter from Earth with naked eyes?

All five naked-eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter — are appearing together in the pre-dawn sky for the first time in a decade. You need only clear skies and your bare eyes to see them; no binoculars or telescopes are required.
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Which planet is the easiest to see from Earth?

Venus is visible in the night sky at the moment too - it is the brightest planet and easiest to spot. Venus appears at sunrise and sunset because it is closest to the Sun.
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Can you see Earth from Pluto?

As you get farther away, the sun's glare begins to overwhelm the view of Earth. From Pluto – even though Earth would be bright enough to see – you probably couldn't see it in the sun's glare. So that is the answer to the question of how far you could be from Earth, and still see it with your own eyes.
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Look for the Great Conjunction of Jupiter



Can Earth be seen from Mars?

Earth and Moon

As seen from Mars, the Earth is an inner planet like Venus (a "morning star" or "evening star"). The Earth and Moon appear starlike to the naked eye, but observers with telescopes would see them as crescents, with some detail visible.
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Is it possible to see Earth in the past?

If you had a mirror on the moon (about 238K miles away), you could see about 2.5 seconds into earth's past. If that mirror was on Pluto, you could see about 13.4 hours into Earth's past.
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What planets can we see with your naked eyes?

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and the second largest, after Jupiter. It is one of the five planets visible from Earth using only the naked-eye (the others are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter).
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What planet can we see without a telescope?

What Planets Are Visible By the Naked Eye? The first step to identifying planets is to know which planets are possible to see without a telescope. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are the five brightest planets in our night sky and, therefore, observable by most people.
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Which planet Cannot be seen with naked eyes from Earth?

Mercury, unlike the other planets, never appears very far away from the horizon in the night sky. From Earth's perspective, that's because Mercury is the closest planet in its orbit with respect to the Sun.
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Can Jupiter see moons with eyes?

Bottom line: You can see Jupiter's four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, known as the Galilean satellites – with your own eyes with the help of binoculars or a small telescope.
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Is Neptune visible from Earth?

More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.
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Is Uranus visible from Earth?

Given its current magnitude, Uranus is barely visible to naked eye under a clear and dark sky, easily visible with the help of a small binocular.
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Why can't you see the Sun in space?

Because space is a near-perfect vacuum — meaning it has exceedingly few particles — there's virtually nothing in the space between stars and planets to scatter light to our eyes.
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Can humans go to Saturn?

The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet would crush, melt, and vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
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What is the only planet that can sustain life?

Earth is the only planet known to maintain life.
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What is the farthest planet you can see without telescope?

Saturn, the most distant, bright naked-eye planet, lies 950 million miles from Earth at mid-month.
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Does Jupiter have clouds?

Jupiter's appearance is a tapestry of colorful cloud bands and spots. The gas planet likely has three distinct cloud layers in its "skies" that, taken together, span about 44 miles (71 kilometers). The top cloud is probably made of ammonia ice, while the middle layer is likely made of ammonium hydrosulfide crystals.
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Can Venus be seen from Earth?

Venus is always the third-brightest object in the sky behind the sun and the moon, and it's always brighter than the brightest stars. However, because it orbits relatively close to the sun, it's only ever visible for a short time after sunset or before sunrise.
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What planet is closest to Earth?

Calculations and simulations confirm that on average, Mercury is the nearest planet to Earth—and to every other planet in the solar system.
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What if you put a mirror in space?

That's assuming they have light sensitive eyes and use them as we do. Hannah - If we could magically put a mirror a million light years away in space then, in theory, if we were able to reflect an image of the Earth that we could see back on Earth, the light would have left the Earth two million years ago.
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How far back in time can we see?

We can see light from 13.8 billion years ago, although it is not star light – there were no stars then. The furthest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the light left over from the Big Bang, forming at just 380,000 years after our cosmic birth.
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Can you look back in time?

Large telescopes can look so deep into the Universe that they can also look back billions of years in time. From 2018, the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be able to see the period just after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies formed.
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