Every evening over the last week or so, when I shut up the poultry after dark, there is a very bright 'star' in the sky. It is in fact the planet Jupiter. After the moon, which was a full moon on the 9th, Jupiter is by far the brightest thing visible in the evening night sky at the moment.
I gather Jupiter is at its closest to the Earth for 70 years, a mere 367 million miles away. Even if you have no chickens to shut up, if you look south east and quite high in the sky you cannot miss it.
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| Jupiter by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, August 2022 |
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