Tonight, in the southwestern sky after sunset, Jupiter’s faster orbital motion will bring it within 0.1 degrees of slower Saturn, causing the two planets to appear, to the unaided eye, as a single bright object. The two planets haven’t been as close together since Galileo was using his spyglass in 1623 – and they won’t meet so close again until 2080. The two planets will easily appear together in the field of view of a backyard telescope at high magnification. They’ll still be telescope-close for more than a week on either side of that date.
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