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WASHINGTON: Snap-happy skywatchers around the world are sharing their shots on social media of this week’s amazing sunset show, with Venus and Jupiter huddled super-close above the western horizon.
Both worlds appear as dazzling star-like objects—and are currently undergoing one of their closest encounters in our sky in over a decade.
The planetary pair have been slowly converging over the past several weeks, and on Tuesday, June 30, and Wednesday, July 1, they are at their tightest grouping—called a conjunction—separated by less than half a degree. That’s less than the width of the disk of the full moon. And it’s so close that onlookers will be able to cover both planets with just their pinky held at arm’s length.
Here’s a view of the pretty conjunction as it appeared Tuesday at dusk, taken with Italy’s leaning tower of Pisa in the foreground.
