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What is that bright white star in the sky? Whether you’re an early riser or you’ve been driving after dark in recent weeks there have been two very bright “stars” shining in the east.They are, of course, not stars at all, but planets—and two of the most famous planets of all.It’s Venus. From January through September the closest planet to Earth dominated the post-sunset night western sky as the “Evening Star,” becoming ever-brighter, before sinking back into the sun’s glare.
Venus, now shining at a magnitude of -4.5 in the constellation Leo, reaches its “greatest elongation west” tomorrow. That’s how astronomers describe its farthest distance from the sun in the morning sky—about 46°, so about half-way up the sky—something that logically makes it more easily seen by more people.
It’s partly a line-of-sight thing. From where we are in our orbit of the sun the closest planet to us, Venus, appears to move back and forth from the sun’s glare into the post-sunset or pre-sunrise night sky.Go outside a couple of hours after sunset this month and you’ll see a bright planet rising in the eastern sky. That’s Jupiter, which is now shining at a magnitude of -2.9 in the constellation Aries.Point any pair of binoculars at Jupiter and you’ll see all four moons .
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