Mars and Jupiter are going to appear incredibly close in the predawn sky this Memorial Day weekend.
, they’ll appear so close to each other, that they’ll be no more than the width of a raised finger apart. Sky chart showing how Jupiter and Mars will appear in the pre-sunrise sky on May 28-30. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars is more than 136 million miles away, with Jupiter’s distance nearly four times that. Yet Jupiter will be the far brighter of the two planets, NASA says. That’s because Mars is much smaller and reflects far less sunlight. It might be necessary to use binoculars or a telescope to spot Mars clearly, said Alphonse Sterling, a NASA astronomer. But he noted that observers should have no trouble identifying Jupiter, even with unaided eyes.The best time to see the conjunction is approximately 45 minutes before local sunrise. Sunday, just before 4 a.m. CDT, is when the conjunction will peak.
A conjunction is a celestial event in which two planets, a planet and the Moon, or a planet and a star appear close together in Earth’s night sky. Conjunctions have no profound astronomical significance but are nice to view. Advertisement
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