Venus and Jupiter make happy, unhappy faces in sky
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A rare astronomical phenomenon was seen across the world Monday night as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Venus and Jupiter, joined a thin crescent moon in the sky. On Sunday night, the two planets appeared closest together in an event known as "Planetary Conjunction". [Xinhua] |
![A rare astronomical phenomenon was seen across the world Monday night as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Venus and Jupiter, joined a thin crescent moon in the sky. On Sunday night, the two planets appeared closest together in an event known as 'Planetary Conjunction'. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081202/000bcdb95f1d0a9f0edb22.jpg "A rare astronomical phenomenon was seen across the world Monday night as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Venus and Jupiter, joined a thin crescent moon in the sky. On Sunday night, the two planets appeared closest together in an event known as 'Planetary Conjunction'. [Xinhua]")
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