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The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be ...

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Venus and Jupiter are making their close approaches to ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star Regulus. Will it return?