{"id":34178,"date":"2026-06-08T19:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34178"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:41:29","slug":"venus-and-jupiter-visible-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34178","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Jupiter visible tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Space Weather News for June 8, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VENUS IS ABOUT TO &#8216;KISS&#8217; JUPITER:<\/strong> Look west after sunset. Venus and Jupiter are converging for a beautiful conjunction, only 1.6 degrees apart on June 9th. Later this week, Mercury and the crescent Moon will join the show, too. Full story and night-by-night sky maps @\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/MsYUTfKDUSe?e=de6f94dc30&amp;c2id=b50d86a5c46b1d63a0ed24c2e6f20528\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/conjunction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/conjunction-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/conjunction-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/conjunction.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Above:<\/strong>\u00a0Venus and Jupiter converging over France. Photo credit: Valerie Liard<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">VENUS-JUPITER CONJUNCTION: <\/span><\/strong>When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. The two brightest planets in the Solar System are converging for a beautiful conjunction. Last night in Austria, Michael Jaeger watched them set together in a blizzard of Starlink satellites:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweathergallery2.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=233519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2026\/08jun26\/blizzard_strip_opt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;What a beautiful pair in the sky,&#8221; says Jaeger. &#8220;Venus and Jupiter are the stars of the night as darkness falls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">At closest approach on June 9th, Venus and Jupiter will be just 1.6 degrees apart&#8211;similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/planets\/gallery_june02.html\">Great Conjunction of 2002<\/a>. And this is just the beginning. During the nights ahead, Mercury and the crescent Moon will join Venus and Jupiter to form a must-see quartet in the twilight sky. It&#8217;s a marvelous week-long sky show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for June 8, 2026 VENUS IS ABOUT TO &#8216;KISS&#8217; JUPITER: Look west after sunset. Venus and Jupiter are converging for a beautiful conjunction, only 1.6 degrees apart on June 9th. Later this week, Mercury and the crescent Moon will join the show, too. Full story and night-by-night sky maps @\u00a0Spaceweather.com. Above:\u00a0Venus and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venus and Jupiter visible tonight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34181,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34178\/revisions\/34181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}