Venus and Jupiter Kiss This Weekend

There's a real treat in the sky over the next few nights: Venus and Jupiter will be very close together. How close? Very, very close. Closest approach (what astronomers call the appulse, but is more colloquially and commonly called a conjunction) will be on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 at 22:00 UTC (18:00 Eastern US time), and at that time they'll be an incredible four arc minutes apart. That's only 1/15th the width of the full Moon on the sky! In fact Jupiter appears half an arc minute across, so Ve...