It’s like one of those rumors you heard in high school. Jupiter really likes Venus. I mean really, really likes her. See how he does everything he can to get closer?

For, like, the whole past week he’s just been hanging around. If you catch a glimpse of her, look nearby. There he is, looming! Weird. Do you think she likes him? If there are two planets that are NOT going to get together, it’s them.

She’s so small and hot, and he’s huge! They say he’s incredibly gaseous. And people who watch him closely say he’s so moon eyed around her. Or maybe those are actual moons. Hard to tell.

Stranger things have happened. Venus and Jupiter will appear to get quite close today, but really, there’s absolutely no chance they’ll ever actually be an item. Two reasons:

1) If you grew up with the same straight-line map of the solar system I saw, you know that Venus is off to the right, between us and the gigantic flaming sun. And Jupiter is far left – out past the asteroid belt and halfway to Uranus. They’re simply too far apart. We shouldn’t even be able to see them in the same piece of sky. Don’t these planets know their left from their right? Didn’t they learn the chart?

2) In Mythology, Jupiter and Venus are a father/daughter pair. Ugh. I know those Gods and Goddesses were a little indiscriminate, but come on. There’s a whole universe out there. Pick somebody more appropriate!

Tell us about the Oddest Couple you know.