A celestial will action heat up in sky on 30th June, as the planet Jupiter is closing in on Venus. The gathering between the two brightest ‘stars’ in the Northern Hemisphere sky will take place in the west-northwest at dusk.

On June 30th, Venus and Jupiter will be in conjunction and will be separated by no more than the width of a chopstick held at arm’s length. They will gradually separate and sink away into the sunset all through July.

Modern astronomy believes that both planets have cloud worlds. However, there are differences as the cloud deck covering Venus is pure white while on Jupiter it’s white with turbulent bands of tan. Also, Venus is slightly less than Earth-size while Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth.

Venus is close to the sun and Jupiter is far off where it’s lit by sunlight only one-fiftieth as bright. Venus has a hot, rocky surface beneath its clouds while Jupiter is nothing but gas and fluid all the way down.

Although Jupiter has no surface, engineering plans consider colonies on the planet that will be permanently floating in its clouds, held up by giant balloons. However, the Jupiter’s intense gravity would crush human bodies would by 2.4 times their Earth weight. Also, there is lethal radiation around Jupiter.