Today:
Venus and Jupiter appear stunningly close in the evening twilight, their closest pass to each other for the next few years. You should start to see them just before 6 o’clock, getting more and more dramatic as the darkness deepens through the next hour, though they will gradually edge lower toward the horizon, requiring a fair low, level view to the west.
Thursday:
High in the southeast this evening, starting near 7 o’clock, a waxing Gibbous Moon shines just below a pair of stars, quite fittingly known as the Twins, or Gemini. As one of the zodiac constellations, the Moon tracks through these stars every 27 days and 8 hours, which brings us a similar display at the end of this month.
Friday:
As the star Arcturus climbs to one third of the way above the eastern horizon 11 o’clock this evening, look for another brilliant star to return to the skies, the bluish-white Vega, just rising in the northeast. Vega appears on any clear night of the year, but shifts into evening skies in the Spring.