Overview
- NASA says the planets will sit about one degree apart, roughly the width of a finger held at arm’s length.
- The pairing is visible to the naked eye, though binoculars or a telescope can sharpen Saturn and may reveal its rings, while a waning gibbous moon and clouds could reduce contrast.
- On Saturday Saturn appears slightly above Venus, then on Sunday Venus shifts higher as it continues brightening in the evening sky.
- Their closeness is only a line-of-sight effect, with the worlds actually separated by roughly a billion miles.
- Saturn is sliding toward solar conjunction around March 25 and will drop from evening view until it reappears before dawn in April, as Venus climbs higher through spring.