... Venus and Jupiter are Close . ... Near the culmination of this year's gorgeous conjunction, the two bright evening planets are captured in the same telescopic field of view in this image taken after sunset from Bejing, China. ... Today the planets Jupiter and Venus pass within half a degree of each other as seen from Earth. ... An Unusual Mountain on Asteroid Ceres . ... Stars trail above and urban lights sprawl below in this moonlit nightscape from Cape Town, South Africa, planet Earth. ...