This evening, look to the western skies as Jupiter and Venus—the two brightest planets to the unaided eye—stage a close encounter over the Northern Hemisphere.

Though the two planets will appear to converge all this week, they'll be at their closest today March 15—separated by only 3 degrees in the sky, or the width of two fingers at arms' length.

Which one is which?

Venus is by far the brighter planet as viewed from earth.

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