![]() ![]() ![]() Jupiter is “definitely brighter than Saturn, so it makes it a lot easier to see,” he said. ![]() Jupiter will rise in the east around 9 p.m., with Saturn rising about an hour or two earlier, Sykes said. “The later you go into the night, the clearer the skies get, with the clearest skies over southeastern Mass.,” he said. Seeing the phenomenon is only possible if the weather cooperates, but on Monday night, Massachusetts should have fairly clear skies, National Weather Service meteorologist Alan Dunham said. “Jupiter has its own orbit and we’ve got ours - they just happened to mesh up right now, closer than usual.”Īt its closest approach to Earth, Jupiter will be about 367 million miles from Earth - roughly the same distance it was in 1963, according to NASA. “Because Earth’s and Jupiter’s orbits aren’t perfectly circular, there are points where are a little closer to each other,” said Quinn Sykes, the manager of Boston University’s Coit Observatory. ![]()
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