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February 6, 2015 – Earth passes more or less between the sun and Jupiter, placing Jupiter opposite the sun in our sky. Astronomers call this event an opposition of Jupiter. The 2015 opposition is Jupiter’s closest until 2019. Jupiter rises at sunset, is highest in the sky at midnight and sets at dawn. It shines more brightly than any star in the evening sky, and is the second-brightest planet, after Venus. But Venus sets in the west at early evening while Jupiter stays out all night long.