See Mars and Saturn separated by barely more than the width of the full Moon tonight in the southwestern sky after dusk. Slowly approaching each other in Earth’s night sky over the past several weeks, the Ringed and Red Planets reach minimum separation tonight in an astronomical phenomenon called an appulse. But the close approach is only an illusion: the two planets are separated in space by roughly 8 astronomical units, or about 745 million miles (1,200,000,000 km).
(Graphic credit: Astronomy Magazine)
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