Every year there’s a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, but rarely do they appear this close.
The two planets will appear to pass just half a degree from each other—the width of an outstretched finger held up to the sky—on Wednesday, and not much farther apart on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. That’s not going to happen again for some years, which is enough to get it the title of “super conjunction.”
Clear skies allowing, of course—and that’s the catch. If you haven’t got clear skies on Wednesday for the main event or Thursday for an almost-as-close apparent pass then there is only one guaranteed way to see 2023’s closest planetary conjunction.
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