Do you see that Venus is so close to the crescent moon? Will they be very close until they “collide”? Yes, they definitely will but just not colliding. It’s occultation. It happened on 1448 UT at 18 June 2007. The moon occulted Venus for not less than 4 hours (roughly figure). Have you seen it?
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