This is an auspicious week because Jupiter will loom as enormous and dazzling as it ever can from our vantage point on Earth.
A dazzling light has been drawing attention to itself low in the eastern sky recently, approximately 7:30 p.m. local daylight time.
. It emits a constant, silvery glow, and after a few hours, when it has risen substantially higher in the east-southeast area of the sky,
Of course, that makes sense given that you are staring at an object named for the king of the gods as well as the king of the planets.
And this is an auspicious week, because Jupiter will loom as enormous and dazzling as it ever can from our vantage point on Earth.
because it is approaching perihelion, the point in its 12-year orbit where it is closest to the sun.
Jupiter seems 11% larger and more than 1.5 times brighter than it did in April 2017.
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