The other day, I came home from work, driving South. I parked my car and walked out into the street. Strangely, there were two lights in the sky, bright and unmoving, stacked right atop each other.
"Funny," I thought. "Must be flights coming in the same direction." I'm used to those things, living in the flight path of a major airport. But the lights weren't blinking, nor moving. Just two orbs. I didn't think much of it, until I saw other locals asking about it online. Satellites? A SpaceX launch? Aliens?
The answer, it turns out, is much simpler.
Jupiter and Venus, at concurrent points in their orbit to catch the light of the sun at just the right angle, forming a perfect angle to catch lateral rays against the horizon. Apparently an extraordinarily rare event, one that I gazed upon for a moment, shrugged, and moved on from.
