"Jupiter will be making its closest approach to Earth Monday night since 1951, and for about the next four months the giant planet will be teamed up with a distant relative: Uranus.

Jupiter will officially be nearest to our planet—368 million miles (592 million kilometers) away—when it reaches opposition, the term for when the sun, Earth, and a given planet are lined up in a row."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100920-
science-space-jupiter-closest-earth-uranus-brightest-fu
ll-moon/

Look out for the full moon this week, too!