Look west at dusk on the first night of this month and you’ll see Venus next to Spica. Lately, the light from Venus takes 4 minutes, 40 seconds to reach us. The light from Spica takes 250 years! Southern hemisphere observers will see this first. Mercury is attempting to join Venus in the evening sky. […]
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Jupiter and Venus are separating in the evening sky after sunset after that remarkably close conjunction on August 27 and 28. Both are barely above the horizon. Venus is going leftward or to the south. It will stay above the horizon just after sunset all month while Jupiter gets lost in dusk’s glare. Find a thin […]