Venus and Saturn will appear extraordinarily close together in the night sky tonight during a celestial event known as a conjunction.
To see Venus and Saturn, look to the southwest immediately as the sun sets. Venus will be bright an unmistakable, shining at its best as an "evening star" throughout the month. Saturn, nearby, will become visible to the naked eye as dusk fades to darkness and remain observable for around three-and-a-half hours past sunset, at which point the pair will sink below the horizon and out of view. The two planets will pass within about two degrees of each other tonight (your clenched fist held at arm's length covers about 10 degrees of sky).
