Moon and Jupiter Close Once Again in Taurus

If you happened to look up in the sky at the moon last night, you may have been surprised to see a bright star hanging right next to the Moon.  However, that was no star.  It was the planet Jupiter.  It is not all that often that you see these two night sky bodies so close to each other.

If you look to the east just after sunset tonight, you will see the Moon and Jupiter rise once again with the constellation Taurus.  The Moon and Jupiter still be within 10 degrees of one another for one last night.  The Moon and Jupiter will start to move further away from each other over the next few nights as the moon continues its transition to a Full Moon on November 10th.

Jupiter moves more slowly across the night sky because of its large orbit around the Sun relative to the Earth.  Jupiter will takes its time meandering across the night sky and will remain in Taurus until 2012.