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About 2.2 degrees apart, or about four full moons, according to Sky at Night. All this month, six planets will be visible in the night sky, four of them with the naked eye.

All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — with them, you can see Uranus and Neptune, too.