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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2023 March 4   
      
                           10 Days of Venus and Jupiter   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Soumyadeep Mukherjee   
      
      Explanation: Venus and Jupiter may have caught your attention lately.   
      The impending close conjunction of the two brightest planets visible in   
      clear evening skies has been hard to miss. With Jupiter at the top,   
      starting on February 21 and ending on March 2, their close approach is   
      chronicled daily, left to right, in these panels recorded from Dhanbad,   
      India. Near the western horizon, the evening sky colors and exposures   
      used for each panel depend on the local conditions near sunset. On   
      February 22, Jupiter and Venus were joined by the young crescent Moon.   
      The celestial pair appeared to be only the width of a full moon apart   
      by March 2. Of course on that date the two planets were physically   
      separated by over 600 million kilometers in their orbits around the   
      Sun. In the coming days Jupiter will slowly settle into the glare at   
      sunset, but Venus will continue to move farther from the Sun in the   
      western sky to excel in its current role as the brilliant evening star.   
      
         Jupiter & Venus Conjunction Gallery: Notable Submissions to APOD   
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