{"id":194405,"date":"2024-08-12T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/jupiter-and-mars-are-about-meet-up-how-to-see-the-planetary-conjunction"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:27:19","slug":"jupiter-and-mars-are-about-meet-up-how-to-see-the-planetary-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/jupiter-and-mars-are-about-meet-up-how-to-see-the-planetary-conjunction","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter and Mars are about meet up: How to see the planetary conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jupiter-and-mars-are-about-meet-up-how-to-see-the-planetary-conjunction3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/02\/07\/nasa-juno-jupiter-io-volcanoes\/72511434007\/\" data-type=link data-id=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/02\/07\/nasa-juno-jupiter-io-volcanoes\/72511434007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Jupiter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/26\/perseverance-rover-mars-rock-evidence-life\/74555231007\/\" data-type=link data-id=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/26\/perseverance-rover-mars-rock-evidence-life\/74555231007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Mars<\/a> are about to get up close and personal to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Look up to the sky early Wednesday morning and you\u2019ll 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, <a href=https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/skywatching\/whats-up-august-2024-skywatching-tips-from-nasa\/ data-type=link data-id=https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/skywatching\/whats-up-august-2024-skywatching-tips-from-nasa\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll appear just a third of a degree apart, which is less than the width of the full Moon,\u201d the U.S. space agency said in a skywatching roundup published July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter and Mars are about to get up close and personal to one another. Look up to the sky early Wednesday morning and you\u2019ll 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194405","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=194405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}