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Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
(TWAN)
Explanation:
What are those two bright objects on the horizon?
Venus and
Jupiter.
The two brightest planets in the night sky
passed very close together --
angularly
-- just two days ago.
In real space, they were just about as far apart as usual,
since Jupiter (on the right) orbits the
Sun around
seven times farther out than Venus.
The
planetary duo
were captured together two days ago in a picturesque sunset sky from
Llers,
Catalonia,
Spain between a tree and the astrophotographer's
daughter.
These
two
planets will continue to stand out in the
evening sky,
toward the west, for the next few days, with a sliver of a
crescent Moon and a fainter
Saturn also visible nearby.
As November ends, Jupiter will sink lower into the
sunset horizon with each subsequent night,
while Venus will rise higher.
The next Jupiter-Venus
conjunction will occur in early 2021.
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