Jupiter is about to be at its brightest and closest point of the year
On Friday, Dec. 6, Jupiter will reach a distance of 380 million miles from our planet, its closest point if the year. That’s still pretty far, though: It’s equivalent to more than 15,260 trips around the equator of Earth. It’s also not quite as close as it could be: In 2022 and 1963, Jupiter came within 367 million miles of Earth.