Here the separation will be only 37 seconds of arc. While Venus is passing Jupiter this week, Jupiter will also be creeping up to Saturn. These two planets will be only slightly greater than one degree apart on Sunday, May 28. By mid-June, however, they will emerge into the morning sky and be easily visible just before dawn. Their separation will be just over two degrees, providing some slight reprieve for these past two weeks of spectacular, but hidden events.
Comets don t streak or run.
They move slowly against the background of more distant stars as their positions change and our observing platform Earth revolves around the sun. Meteors can streak, flame, and sputter, but their rapid motion makes them impossible to follow through a telescope. Then came the real eye opener. There has never been a single real time observation in the history of astronomy which has detailed the collision of two asteroids. In July of 1994 telescopes were trained on Jupiter as 20 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fell into its atmosphere.