Venus And Jupiter Will Form A Stunning 'Cosmic Kiss' In The Sky Tonight
If you step outside tonight (June 9) and look toward the western horizon shortly after sunset, you could witness a celestial hookup as Venus and Jupiter appear side-by-side in a rare planetary conjunction.
Due to their striking proximity, the Venus-Jupiter kissing couple will be separated by less than two degrees, a distance so small that you can easily fit your pinky between them at arm's length, or capture both within the field of view of most standard 10x50 binoculars. Venus, tracking higher into the sky as the radiant evening star (so to speak), will easily outshine everything else in the twilight, while the gas giant Jupiter will gleam to its lower left.
While they look like close neighbors from the ground, the encounter is but an optical illusion. Obviously, the planets remain separated by hundreds of millions of miles. In this case, Jupiter is steadily receding toward the solar...
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