The planets Venus and Jupiter have been visible in the early evening sky for several weeks now.  During that period of time, the position of the two planets has been changing relative to each other, as shown in the series of photos below.

In the first photo, taken May 26, Jupiter is above Venus and to the right, and the two are some distance apart.  For an observer in the southern hemisphere, Jupiter has been moving down and to the left, while Venus has moved up and to the right.  The planets were moving closer together until June 4 (in Australia) or June 3 (in America), when they passed each other ‘‘like two ships in the night’’ and since then have been moving further apart, so that their relative positions have now switched, with Venus above and to the right of Jupiter.

Unfortunately, the zoom is not the same on all of the photos, so it is difficult to gauge the relative distance between the planets.  The photos in this series for June 4-8 are each at 10x optical zoom, but the ones before and after those dates are at lesser degrees of magnification.