{"id":169784,"date":"2023-03-01T20:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=169784"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:26:05","slug":"two-planets-will-appear-to-kiss-in-the-sky-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/two-planets-will-appear-to-kiss-in-the-sky-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Two planets will appear to \u2018kiss\u2019 in the sky tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to pass each other in what\u2019s known as a conjunction.<\/p>

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Jupiter will appear to shift westward, while a bright Venus will seem to move slowly in the other direction,\u00a0NASA said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conjunctions between planets happen frequently because the celestial bodies orbit around the sun in approximately the same plane as one another and trace similar paths across our sky.<\/p>

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NASA said that the two planets would appear in the western sky above the horizon around 6:58 pm ET, as evening twilight ends on the East Coast of the United States.<\/p>

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At their closest, they\u2019re expected to be just half a degree apart \u2014 about the diameter of a full moon, said Robert Massey, deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

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The best time to spot the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in the US will be early evening on\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, but the two planets will continue to appear close together in the night sky on Thursday, he added. The conjunction will be visible to the naked eye.<\/p>

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