Astrophotographers capture rare Jupiter and Mars encounter (photos)

A silhouette of a person standing next to a camera and looking at two bright points of light in the sky, the larger brighter one is Jupiter and the smaller redder one is Mars. A long Perseid meteor streaks through the sky to the right.

On Aug. 14, avid astrophotographers turned their attention to the sky a couple of hours before sunrise and captured a rare planetary "meet-up" between Jupiter and Mars. 

It's been over two years since Jupiter and Mars appeared this close together in the night sky and we'll have to wait until 2033 to see such a close encounter unfold again.