{"id":517088,"date":"2026-06-03T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/517088\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:52:13","slug":"see-our-two-brightest-planets-form-a-triple-alignment-with-the-moon-after-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/517088\/","title":{"rendered":"See Our Two Brightest Planets Form a Triple Alignment with the Moon After Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Venus viewed in ultraviolet light \u2013 credit JAXA\/ISAS\/DARTS\/Kevin M. Gill CC 2.0. retrieved from Flickr<\/p>\n

Three bright planets will conjoin in the June sky early this month before the Moon jumps in on the 16th.<\/p>\n

The conjunction will feature the two brightest planets from our point of view: Venus, blazing hot and near at hand, and Jupiter, far away but orders of magnitude larger.<\/p>\n

Arrayed in a line drawn from northwest to southeast across the western sky after sunset, Mercury sits near the horizon to complete the skewer.<\/p>\n

The event will begin on the 7th, when for a person looking west-northwest, it will appear that Venus and Jupiter sit beside one another. As the nights go on, Venus will gradually move in a northwesterly direction, and by the 10th will practically touch the light of Jupiter.<\/p>\n

She will continually move past the gas giant until the 16th when she will sit along an almost perfect line with Jupiter and Mercury\u2014the same night that a waxing crescent Moon will position herself between the latter two around 35 minutes after sunset.<\/p>\n

The following night\u2014the 17th\u2014at around the same time, the Moon will appear just above and to the left of Venus, creating a new arrangement of Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury in an even closer-to-perfect line.<\/p>\n

One cool thing about this conjunction is that in the Southern Hemisphere, almost all the details and timing are the same<\/a>\u2014only in reverse, with the line being drawn northeast to southwest.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a superb introduction to these solar system neighbors, and a perfect opportunity to get out in the lovely late-spring night air when frogs and crickets are peeping with renewal.<\/p>\n

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