How to See the Conjunction Between Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.

August has delivered many spectacular sights in the night sky: a supermoon, meteor showers, and supercharged auroras. Mars and Jupiter also currently appear unusually close together in the night sky, in what’s known as a conjunction. They appeared closest during the early morning of August 14 and are now gradually moving apart, and won’t be this close again in the sky until 2033.

But while they are still close, at the end of the month—on August 27—they’ll be joined by a third protagonist, the moon, producing a rare triple conjunction of the three bodies close together. The

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