In the last few days, we have watched the intricate dance of Venus and Jupiter in the Western sky after sunset.  They have tangoed and passed by one another and the world has watched as the best conjunction of the year has come and gone.  Don’t forget that even though they appear close in the sky, Venus is actually closer to the Earth than it is to Jupiter.  Jupiter is hundreds of millions of kilometers further away than Venus. Today’s APOD is a beautiful shot by Letian Wang combining the proximity of the two planets with the (much further East...