Feast your eyes on these treats in the night sky, with ISS, Venus and the constellations – Gloucestershire Live

There wasnt much to get excited about last night as news of the coronavirus-prompted UK lockdown broke but those who looked up at the sky over Gloucestershire had a treat.

These pictures from budding astronomer Susan Snow capture the moment the International Space Station went over Bishops Cleeve, near Cheltenham.

She tweeted the images, saying Venus and the star clusters Pleiades, Hyades and Orion could also be seen.

The clarity of the pictures were no doubt helped by the sustained period of high pressure we have over the UK at the moment.

It means there are few clouds, plenty of sunshine and clear skies at night so the stars can be seen relatively easily.

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty and is the second-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon.

The International Space Station is a space station in low Earth orbit. It is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA.

The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements.

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