Each July, the solar system arranges itself into a brief and unrepeatable configuration, reminding those who look up that time and light move on their own terms. This month, Southern Hemisphere observers find Venus blazing in the northwest twilight and Jupiter holding its dimmer post nearby — one planet ascending into clarity, the other descending toward the Sun's embrace. The sky offers a compressed invitation: to witness Venus growing fuller and larger through the telescope across the coming weeks, and to catch Jupiter's Galilean moons before conjunction swallows the giant from view on the 2
Venus, Jupiter shine in July's early evening Southern Hemisphere sky
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