The two planets have spent the beginning of March so close in the sky that they appeared to touch, but now Jupiter and Venus move apart.
. Skywatchers will have to wait a while until the two planets are so-close again. Venus and Jupiter will next"kiss" on Feb. 7 2032 when they will come to within 21 arcminutes or around a third of a degree of each other.
A 10-image collage showing Jupiter and Venus moving toward one another. The sky is a different color in each panel of the collage.planets appear close to each other in the sky over Earth. This is an optical illusion created from our point of view on Earth and it doesn't imply they are actually any more proximate to each other in the solar system. , and that means that lunar conjunctions occur roughly once each 29.
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