The Backyard Astronomer, Gary Boyle
March is set to kick off with a pair of “spooky eyes” in the sky.
Astronomy educator Gary Boyle has passed long a note to myFM that Jupiter and Venus are set to meet in a small area of the sky the width of a full moon on the evening of Wednesday, March 1st.
He says Venus is climbing up into the sky each night while Jupiter is moving towards the horizon, and the two planets will line up into a pair of “spooky eyes” in an event known as “conjunction.”
The orbits of the two planets will appear to approach each other from our line of sight even though they’ll be hundreds of millions of miles apart.
Both planets are visible to the naked eye on a clear night, but Boyle says you can check in with any astronomy app on your cellphone or tablet if you find yourself having trouble tracking the two celestial bodies down on March 1st.
(written by Kasey Egan)
