One is very bright, bright enough to be a plane, and one is still brighter than the stars around it but not by much. The latter rose earlier and is higher in the sky than the former.
For a planet to be in the night sky, is it closer to the Sun than we are, or further? This one takes a minute to think through, so I often demonstrate. I treat one visitor like they’re the Sun, one like they’re the Earth, and myself like I’m the planet. Once I do this, most pick up on the fact that if a planet were to be closer to the Sun than us, you would never see it at night. Only planets further from the Sun than us can be seen at night, although you might also spot them during Sun rise at certain points in their orbits.
Do you remember which planets are further from the Sun than us? Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Uranus and Neptune are so far away they can only be seen with a telescope (although Uranus can sometimes be seen with the naked-eye, you have to have very good eyes). So, that leaves us with three options. All three of them are bright and can be seen with the naked-eye, but for that particularly bright one to be that much brighter than the other, it must be really, really big. That makes it…
…Jupiter!
Meanwhile, Mars is very, very red, and this last dot is not. That means it must be Saturn.
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