Just after sunset on Wednesday, Jupiter and Venus will appear to embrace in the evening sky.
"Jupiter and Venus will be at their closest approach point on Wednesday evening, March 1," Paul Delaney, an emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at York University, told CTVNews.ca. "As the evening progresses, while they're still above the horizon, they are just going to be dazzling over there on the western sky."
"Venus is going to pop out really clear: it'll be about two fists' widths above the horizon," Delaney explained. "And then give it a couple more minutes, and you'll see Jupiter just above it. So you're looking for the two brightest points of light, a good hand-span above the western horizon." "Anybody who's been looking towards the western sky over the last couple of weeks will have noticed that Jupiter has been sinking like a stone towards Venus, getting closer and closer," Delaney added. "And after Wednesday, they're going to begin to separate again, they'll get further and further apart."
"They're actually over 750 million kilometres apart," Delaney said. "But from our perspective, as we on Earth look past where Venus is into the outer solar system, it's that apparent alignment that we're looking at between."
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