Venus and Mars shine from the western sky this evening.  Bright Venus is slowly moving away from Venus.  Tonight they are 6.5 degrees apart. Tonight Mars sets about 20 minutes after Venus.  By month’s end the gap grows to about 40 minutes.

For more information about current sky events, see these articles:

• 2017 Evening Planets
• 2017 Morning Planets
• Venus as an Evening Star, 2016-2017
• Venus as a Morning Star, 2017
• Chart and Image Collection
• The Venus-Mars Encounter
• Jupiter’s Year with Spica:  A Triple Conjunction

Categories: Astronomy, Sky Watching

Tags: astronomy, Mars, Planets, sky watching, Venus