Today, Wednesday, March 13, the Earth is witnessing the conjunction of the Moon and the planet Jupiter, as the Moon appears in conjunction with the planet Jupiter (the giant of the solar system) on that day.
We see the moon and Jupiter side by side in the sky immediately after sunset and the onset of night, and they remain visible until the beginning of sunset at approximately 9:30 pm.
Dr. Ashraf Tadros, professor of astronomy at the National Institute for Astronomical Research, revealed that the conjunction of celestial bodies means seeing one of them near the other in the sky within a specific range of degrees of arc when viewing them from Earth. This is an apparent, unreal angular proximity that has no relation to the real distances between them, because they are very large. Hundreds of millions or billions of kilometers.
Tadros pointed out that the best places to watch astronomical phenomena in general are far from light pollution, such as coasts, fields, deserts, prairies, and mountains.
