{"id":147054,"date":"2022-09-25T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/jupiter-is-coming-its-closest-to-earth-in-decades"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:23:30","slug":"jupiter-is-coming-its-closest-to-earth-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/jupiter-is-coming-its-closest-to-earth-in-decades","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter is coming its closest to Earth in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jupiter-is-coming-its-closest-to-earth-in-decades3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gas giant Jupiter is coming the closest it has come to Earth in 59 years this Monday and will be particularly visible because it coincides with another event called opposition.<\/p>\n<p>When in opposition, a planet is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun, so you could draw a straight line from the sun to Earth to Jupiter, all in alignment. Jupiter\u2019s opposition happens every 13 months. Looking from the Earth, when the sun sets in the west, Jupiter will rise in the east, directly opposite. During opposition, planets appear at their biggest and brightest.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Jupiter is coming closer to Earth than it has since 1963. Because of Earth\u2019s and Jupiter\u2019s differing orbits around the sun, they don\u2019t pass each other at the same distance each time. When it\u2019s closest on Monday, Jupiter will be about 367 million miles from Earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/Watch_the_Skies\/2022\/09\/16\/jupiter-to-reach-opposition-closet-approach-to-earth-in-70-years\/\">according to NASA<\/a>. At its farthest, it\u2019s 600 million miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gas giant Jupiter is coming the closest it has come to Earth in 59 years this Monday and will be particularly visible because it coincides with another event called opposition. When in opposition, a planet is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun, so you could draw a straight line from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}