Jupiter and Venus to be the conjunction in June

Astronomers have said the month of June will see a major astronomical event as Jupiter and Venus will be in conjunction in the early-evening western sky.

The experts have said that it will be the brightest starlike objects in the night sky. They said that even if a viewer is observing from light-polluted location, the planets could be seen moving closer to each other. During the second half of June and into July, the two planets will appear to be a single planet.

Venus will look like a very bright cloud-covered halfmoon when looked through a telescope and will become crescent shaped later. The Venus' orbit of the sun lies within Earth's orbit so Venus also goes through shape changeslike the moon changes as angle between the Earth.

On the other hand, observers will be able to see four ofJupiter's moons that resemble tiny stars on either side of the planet. Some expected thecloud bands might also be seen stretching across the 88,000-mile-wide planet.

Experts said that stargazing will be seriously affected throughout the week but the visibility will improve during the next week. They also said that the full moon will allow people to find the Saturn in the early-evening southeastern sky this week.


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