Venus and Jupiter were close in the western sky tonight. Well they looked close by eye, but when a photograph is taken with a long telephoto lens they appear to be quite a long way apart. The whole thing is an illusion anyway and in reality they are millions of miles apart and Jupiter is 10x bigger that Venus. This is also true of many the stars we see in our constellations - they seem to form a 2D pattern in the sky, when in 3D reality they are nowhere near each other.
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