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Today, the night sky of the Arab world is witnessing an interesting astronomical event that you can see with your eyes after sunset next Sunday, November 24, where the two planets of Jupiter and Venus will approach each other in the sky, becoming like two bright lights in the western horizon.

The planets appear to us on Earth as bright stars, because they reflect sunlight to Earth, but they are very far away from us and are therefore small in the sky.

Venus is the brightest object of the sky after the sun and the moon, followed by Jupiter, so all you need is to go out to the balcony or climb to the roof of the house, about half an hour after sunset, then search for two very bright objects in the western horizon - the position of sunset - you will find them clearly.

Heavenly lamps
The difference in size between Jupiter and Venus, Jupiter is the largest of the planets and we can put a thousand small balls the size of Venus, but Venus shines more and with a clear difference for two reasons, the first that it is closer to us, and the second is that its atmosphere reflects a large amount of light falling on it.

Venus has a massive greenhouse effect that makes it the hottest planet

Venus has an enormous greenhouse effect that makes it the hottest planet in its atmosphere, about 470 degrees Celsius.This planet was once billions of years ago, according to some studies, resembling Earth, but once the sun's radiation rose, its oceans evaporated and caused it.

Jupiter is a stormy world. With a small telescope, you can observe the layers of its atmosphere in the form of mutually dark and light lines.

It will also be interesting to follow the scenes of the two planets - Venus and Jupiter - after sunset on the nights following their meeting, where you will notice that Jupiter descends down day by day, and Venus is rising up, and the distance between them gradually increases.

All you need to meditate on the planets is just five minutes, so it's a simple and fun task.You can engage your children or family to reflect on this phenomenon.This helps them to love astronomy, which may open the door for them to learn science with a degree of passion in the future.