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.”
Planet Parade, The Sky at Night
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.
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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Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...
Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...
On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...
The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...
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