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Enchanted Learning® Photoblog Posted August 19, 2014 8:10 pm

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Venus and Jupiter - Conjunction of August 2014

Venus and Jupiter - Conjunction of August 2014

Venus and Jupiter in their closest conjunction of 2014 — superimposed, for scale, on the moon of a week ago (grayed out). You can see that the two planets appeared closer in the sky than the diameter of the full moon.

Venus, on the left, is in its gibbous phase, 95.2% illuminated.

The four Galilean moons of Jupiter are visible: from top to bottom, Europa, Io, Callisto, and Ganymede. (Venus and Jupiter are overexposed so that the Galilean satellites would be bright enough to see.)

18 August 2014 12:00 pm UTC

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Date taken: August 18, 2014 Place taken: Mercer Island, WA, USA Mitchell Spector Copyright ©2014 Enchanted Learning, LLC	RELATED IMAGES Transit of Venus 2012 Venus and Jupiter - Conjunction of August 2014 Partial Solar Eclipse: First Glimpse and Maximum Lunar Eclipse of April 4, 2015 Two Views of Totality: The Colorful Lunar Eclipse of September 28, 2015 Transit of Mercury 2016 Solar Prominences During a Total Solar Eclipse First Contact in a Total Solar Eclipse Solar Eclipse: Ten Minutes to Totality Montage of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse Solar Eclipse Progression The Sun's Corona During a Total Solar Eclipse Total Lunar Eclipse of January 21, 2019 - Wolf Moon Jupiter and Saturn - Conjunction of December 2020