PASADENA, CALIF. — NASA says it has received a signal from 540 million miles across the solar system, confirming its Juno spacecraft has successfully started orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets, could be clearly seen in the western sky this evening. According to Planetsave after roughly 2,000 years the Star of Bethlehem made its return tonight. More specifically Venus and Jupiter made their tightest highly visibly conjunction in nearly two millennia. According to James Ayre on Planetsave, the reference …read more.