Venus, Saturn snuggle in the night sky for Planetary Conjunction
“Saturday evening, January 18: Venus and Saturn will appear nearest to each other. As evening twilight ends at 6:15 p.m. EST, Venus will be 30 degrees above the southwestern horizon with Saturn 2.2 degrees to the lower left. Saturn will set first on the western horizon almost 3 hours later at 9:04 p.m.”
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
On the evenings of Jan. 17 and 18, the planets will appear virtually side by side, in what's called a “planetary conjunction.
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