Wow! The sky’s brightest and second-brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter – are teaming up to give the closest planet-planet conjunction of 2014. Simply look eastward an hour or more before sunrise, starting somewhat before mid-August, to witness these two dazzlingly-bright beacons beaming close together in the eastern sky. They’ll be closest around August 18. Then these two brilliant worlds will only be about 1/5 degree apart (the diameter of the moon spans 1/2 degree). Watch for them! It’ll be the only Venus/ Jupiter conjunction until July 1, 2015. And it’ll be the closest Venus/ Jupiter conjunction until August 27, 2016.