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Anthony Wood

Closer every day: A spectacular 30-day collage of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction (photo)

A series of vertical panels show Jupiter and Venus moving closer in the night sky from left to right, before converging in the far right panel.

Astrophotographer Soumyadeep Mukherjee has shared a spectacular 30-day collage of the western night sky titled "Closer, Everyday", which captures the subtle motion of Jupiter and Venus as they danced through the skies above Kolkata, India, ahead of a dramatic planetary conjunction.

The photos used to create the collage were taken with a Nikon Z6II camera paired with a Sigma 50 mm lens in the hours following sunset from May 11 through to June 9, as Jupiter and Venus shone close to one another in the constellation Gemini.

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