Don’t miss Saturn and Venus together in the night sky tonight

An illustration of the evening sky on Jan. 22 showing the conjunction of Venus and Saturn.

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On Sunday (Jan.22) the solar system planets Saturn and Venus will make a close approach to each other in the night sky, separated by no more than the width of a finger. 

At the same time, the two planets will share the same right ascension (the celestial equivalent of latitude) in the sky in an arrangement that astronomers call a conjunction. At the time of the close approach, Venus, the second closest planet to the sun, and Saturn, the solar system’s second largest planet, will be in the constellation of Capricorn. 



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