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JUPITER and Venus gave stargazers a cosmic show yesterday morning by appearing in a rare close conjunction visible to the naked eye.
The planetary rendezvous could be spotted on the east-south-east horizon before sunrise, just after 6am.
Jupiter was seen on the right and Venus on the left.
Despite being hundreds of millions of miles apart, they appeared together in 2015 and 2016 — also on November 13.
According to Nasa, another conjunction (the point at which the planets are closest together in the sky) will occur between Saturn and Mercury on the western horizon at dusk on November 24 and 28.
Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Brendan Owens said Jupiter and Venus were separated by “just over half the apparent size of the full moon in the sky.”
He added: “The cloudy atmospheres of both Venus and Jupiter are excellent mirrors for the sun’s light, making them easy to spot with the naked eye.”
