A phenomenon we haven’t seen in 70 years.. ‘Jupiter’ reaches its closest point to Earth

A phenomenon we haven't seen in 70 years.. 'Jupiter' reaches its closest point to Earth

Today, Sunday, September 18, 2022, the City of Science reported that we are on a date with a very bright “celestial body” on the eastern horizon at the beginning of the night during the month of September. His point, and this distance is estimated at 591 million km, a situation not seen in 70 years.

The City of Science indicated that the farthest distance between Earth and Jupiter is estimated at 965 million km.

And she added that Jupiter will be in the position of meeting the sun relative to the Earth, on September 26, 2022 at 6:03 pm GMT, meaning that the Earth is in the middle of the sun and Jupiter, when Jupiter will be large and bright in the direction of the constellation Pisces, and its apparent diameter reaches 48.8 arc second.

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