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Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky – NASA Science<\/a> <\/p>\n In March, Venus and Jupiter continue their relentless convergence until, on March 12th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup>, the duo lie only three degrees apart\u00e2\u20ac\u201da spectacular double beacon in the sunset sky (sky<\/a> map<\/a>). Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to hide them together behind a pair of outstretched fingertips. <\/p>\n There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something mesmerizing about stars and planets bunched together in this way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand, no, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not imagining things when it happens to you. The phenomenon is based on the anatomy of the human eye. [mjh: worth reading the rest at the link]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky – NASA Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky – NASA Science In March, Venus and Jupiter continue their relentless convergence until, on March 12th and 13th, the duo lie only three degrees apart\u00e2\u20ac\u201da spectacular double beacon in the sunset sky (sky map). Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to hide them together behind … Continue reading Venus and Jupiter 3 degrees apart near sunset<\/span> \n
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![map<\/a>). Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to hide them together behind a pair of outstretched fingertips. <\/p>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something mesmerizing about stars and planets bunched together in this way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand, no, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not imagining things when it happens to you. The phenomenon is based on the anatomy of the human eye. [mjh: worth reading the rest at the link]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nCold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky – NASA Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky – NASA Science In March, Venus and Jupiter continue their relentless convergence until, on March 12th and 13th, the duo lie only three degrees apart\u00e2\u20ac\u201da spectacular double beacon in the sunset sky (sky map). Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to hide them together behind … Continue reading Venus and Jupiter 3 degrees apart near sunset<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/media\/medialibrary\/2012\/02\/17\/skymap_13mar12.gif\"){kind=link}