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Just one day before opposition, Jupiter will be around 367 million miles away from the Earth, the closest the two planets have been in 59 years, according to NASA. The last time that Jupiter was ...
The best nights of all of 2022 to see Jupiter in the night sky are about to take place as the planet takes center stage in the night sky, a showing unlike any other in nearly six decades. The sun ...
Time UTC Planet Angle distance Planet Elongation to Sun January 18, 2009 06:19:19 Mercury 3°15' north of Jupiter 4.7° East January 23, 2009 15:34:10 Venus 1°24' north of Uranus 46.3° East January 26, 2009 18:23:39 Mercury 4°25' north of Mars 13.5° West February 17, 2009 09:35:27 Mars 35' south of Jupiter 18.8° West February 24, 2009
The ascending nodes of both planets are similar (100.6 degrees for Jupiter and 113.7 degrees for Saturn), meaning if Saturn is above or below Earth's orbital plane Jupiter usually is too. Because these nodes align so well it would be expected that no closest approach will ever be much worse than the difference between the two inclinations.
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At that time, a body is: in apparent retrograde motion [2] visible almost all night – rising around sunset, culminating around midnight, and setting around sunrise [3] at the point in its orbit where it is roughly closest to Earth, making it appear larger and brighter [4] nearly completely sunlit; the planet shows a full phase, analogous to a ...
The conjunction, which will be visible to the naked eye, is the closest that the two planets will come for viewers from Earth until 2039. At their closest point, Jupiter and Venus will be just ...
When they are in phase and move between the Sun and the Earth at the same time they remain close together in the sky for weeks. The following table gives these average intervals, between corresponding conjunctions, in Julian years of 365.25 days, for combinations of the nine traditional planets.