Venus-Jupiter conjunction peaks Thursday night...

[Michie]

Spectacle will appear in Northern Hemisphere evening skies to the west.

This Thursday evening, look to the western skies as Jupiter and Venus—the two brightest planets to the unaided eye—stage a close encounter over the Northern Hemisphere.

Though the two planets will appear to converge all this week, they'll be at their closest March 15—separated by only 3 degrees in the sky, or the width of two fingers at arms' length.

When two worlds seem to line up in the sky, it's called a conjunction. But the apparent proximity is an optical illusion—in reality, Venus is nearly 75.9 million miles (122 million kilometers) distant from Earth, and Jupiter sits about seven times farther away at 524 million miles (844 million kilometers) from Earth.

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[Simon Belmont]

When the neighbors turn off their ultra-bright porch lights , I like to go outside with a telescope and view things like this. This is a very exciting event!

 

[JacktheCatholic]

We brought our telescope out the other day and it is perched on our patio in the back yard.

 

[Michie]

I'm looking foward to it. It is unseasonably warm too!

 

[JacktheCatholic]

I'm looking foward to it. It is unseasonably warm too!

Warm, most certainly!

 

[Michie]

I'm getting worried. It's clouding up here.