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See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week

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The crescent moon is set to draw close to Jupiter in the post-sunset sky on April 29 .

It will be visible for just a few hours before slipping below the horizon at around 10:30 pm EDT for skywatchers in New York .

The moon will make its closest approach to Jupiter at 12:54 EDT ( 1654 GMT ) on April 30 .

Jupiter can be seen as a bright magnitude -1.83 point of light shining in the constellation Taurus to the upper left of the moon.

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