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Jupiter and Mars are about meet up: How to see the planetary conjunction

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Jupiter and Mars are about to get up close and personal to one another.

Look up to the sky early Wednesday morning and you’ll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction. This is what is projected to happen when the bright giant gas planet gets a visit from the rocky red planet and the two celestial bodies appear to be close to one another, according to NASA.

“They’ll appear just a third of a degree apart, which is less than the width of the full Moon,” the U.S. space agency said in a skywatching roundup published July 31.