APOD 1.1

     Recently I was looking at the APOD titled Venus and Jupiter at Dawn from August 21 2014. It blows my mind that we can see both Venus and Jupiter from here on Earth. It surprised me at first when I realized that Venus seemed to be bigger and brighter in the sky but I later came to the conclusion that it was this way because Venus is closer to Earth than Jupiter. The planets were at their closest conjunction since 2000.  I never expected to be able to see Jupiter from Earth. Im surprised that Jupiter looked so big even though it is so far away from Earth. It blows my mind how big Jupiter must be in order to appear that size from Earth.