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Bright Jupiter, complimenting Venus in the western evening sky, shines from the south-southeastern sky this evening. Now well past its opposition, Jupiter is passing Zubenelgenubi, in Libra. Watch as Jupiter passes and moves away from the star.
For more about the bright evening planets, see these articles:
- 2018: Five Planets Visible at Once
- 2018, Summer: Evening Planet Parade: Five Bright Planets Visible During One Evening
- 2018: Venus the Evening Star
- 2017-2019: Mars Observing Year with a Perihelic Opposition, July 27, 2018
- 2018: Mars Perihelic Opposition
- 2017-2018: Jupiter’s Year in the Claws of the Scorpion, A Triple Conjunction
- 2018: Three Planets at Opposition in 79 days
- 2018: Saturn with the Teapot