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On Wednesday (Jan. 25) the moon will meet up with the solar system's largest planet Jupiter in the night sky.

According to In-the-Sky(opens in new tab), the 5-day-old waxing crescent moon will pass less than 2 degrees to the south of Jupiter during the conjunction while the two objects will be in the constellation of Pisces.

(Image credit: Celestron)During the conjunction, the moon and Jupiter will still be too widely separated to be seen with a telescope despite appearing close together to the unaided eye.

Because the moon moves rapidly along an imaginary line in the sky called the ecliptic that takes it past the constellations, lunar conjunctions with the solar system planets happen around once a month.

An illustration of the night sky as seen from New York City on Wednesday (Jan. 25) facing southwest around 7:49 p.m. EST (0049 GMT on Jan. 26).

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