Did you look up in the sky last night and wondered what was this big bright shiny star next to the moon? Well it was not a star but a planet, it was Jupiter! Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. How fascinating!!!

Photo credit goes to my dear friend Jo who took this beautiful shot from her balcony in Brunswick! This is the real colour, no filter was used, the orange tone is likely to come from the smoke of the bushfires. Thank you SO MUCH Jo for sharing!!!

Funnily enough today is Nicolaus Copernicus’ 540th Birthday! Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe. Click here to check today very cool Google’s doodle… :-)