--- title: Venus and Jupiter: How to See the 2017 Planet Conjunction description: Venus and Jupiter will appear close together on the horizon just before sunrise on Monday — an astronomical event known as a conjunction canonical: https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-12T19:19:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:53:59.125Z article:section: Science og:title: How to See the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction on Monday og:description: The distant planets will appear close together just before sunrise og:url: https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41c407e89e047ec/6988e588ab6d7747906b0970/venus-jupiter-conjunction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4256 og:image:height: 2394 og:image:alt: A crecent moon (L) and the planets Venus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to See the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction on Monday twitter:description: The distant planets will appear close together just before sunrise twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41c407e89e047ec/6988e588ab6d7747906b0970/venus-jupiter-conjunction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How to See the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction on Monday > Sponsored content. 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The moon likely had an ancient, temporary atmosphere — similar to the pocket of gases that surround Earth — around 3 to 4 billion years ago, according to a new study._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Nov 12, 2017 7:19 PM UTC  A crecent moon (L) and the planets Venus (C, bottom) and Jupiter (R) are seen in a rare alignment over the Manhattan skyline on Dec. 1, 2008 from New York. A crecent moon (L) and the planets Venus (C, bottom) and Jupiter (R) are seen in a rare alignment over the Manhattan skyline on Dec. 1, 2008 from New York. Stand Honda—AFP/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Nov 12, 2017 7:19 PM UTC Despite being hundreds of millions of miles apart, Venus and Jupiter will appear close together on the horizon just before sunrise on Monday — an astronomical event known as a conjunction. “You’ll have to be looking very low on the east-southeast horizon about 45 minutes before sunrise,” Jane Houston Jones of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [said in a video](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2017/11/01/whats-up-for-november-2017), recommending that viewers protect their eyes and avoid aiming binoculars or telescopes directly at the sun. The planets will appear to move past each other about seven degrees above the horizon, “forming what looks like a brilliant double star,” according to NASA. Viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will have the best view of the phenomenon, [according to EarthSky](http://earthsky.org/tonight/venusjupiter-conjunction-on-november-13?utm%5Fcontent=bufferacebd&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer). Venus and Jupiter will rise about an hour before the sun in the United States and Europe, about 50 minutes before the sun at the equator, and about 40 minutes before the sun in the Southern Hemisphere, [according to EarthSky](http://earthsky.org/tonight/venusjupiter-conjunction-on-november-13?utm%5Fcontent=bufferacebd&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer). More information about sunrise, as well as Venus and Jupiter’s rise times, can be found [here](http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/mrst.php). The key is to wake up early and find an unobstructed view of the horizon. Similar conjunctions took place in 2015 and 2016 and in 2008, when a crescent moon also appeared nearby and [created a rare trifecta](https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081202-venus-jupiter-photo.html). > [](https://twitter.com/earthskyscience/status/929742336413794311) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/"},"headline":"How to See the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction on Monday","datePublished":"2017-11-12T19:19:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:53:59.125Z","description":"The distant planets will appear close together just before sunrise","url":"https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/","keywords":["Space","NASA","onetime","space 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41c407e89e047ec/6988e588ab6d7747906b0970/venus-jupiter-conjunction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41c407e89e047ec/6988e588ab6d7747906b0970/venus-jupiter-conjunction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A crecent moon (L) and the planets Venus","caption":"A crecent moon (L) and the planets Venus","creditText":"Stand Honda—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/","name":"How to See the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction on Monday"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Moon Once Had an Atmosphere That Faded Away","description":"The moon likely had an ancient, temporary atmosphere — similar to the pocket of gases that surround Earth — around 3 to 4 billion years ago, according to a new study.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/iEIHrSjw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-10-09T19:19:39.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iEIHrSjw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5020796/venus-jupiter-conjunction-2017/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```