Venus and Jupiter will appear to come within just 1.6 degrees of each other after sunset on Tuesday, June 9. It’s set to be one of the year’s best naked-eye sky events.

See spectacular photos of Jupiter and Venus captured as the planets shone close together in the late spring sky around June 9.

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.

Venus and Jupiter appeared to “kiss” in the twilight sky on June 9, reaching a spectacular conjunction that remains visible after sunset all this week.

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On June 8 and 9, Venus will dance together with Jupiter in Cancer, creating one of the most auspicious, tender and emotionally generous transits of the year

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a single anticyclonic storm observed for more than 300 years, stretches more than two Earth diameters from east to west and plunges roughly 300 miles below the planet’s cloud tops.

Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single cosmic trap hiding behind the biggest planet in our neighbourhood. How does one planet control what gets built billions of miles away?