They may look alarmingly close together, but trust me, Jupiter (on the left) and Venus (brighter, and on the right) aren't going to bang into one another: they are 400 million miles apart. I heard a piece on NPR about this planetary conjunction, claiming that witnessing them in the sky this week, and allowing them to make us feel very very small, is to experience Awe - and it struck me that the current interest in awe (see, for example, Dacher Keltner's new book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life) is really a reworking of the Sublime for the C21st.
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