If choosing a peanut oil substitute for deep frying, choose a cooking oil with a higher smoke point. The smoke point marks the temperature at which an oil begins smoking and decomposing. Corn oil, canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil and safflower oil all have higher smoke points than peanut oil.
This certainly is an unusual coincidence for the crescent moon to be right there in the days when they are going to be closest together, said Alan MacRobert, senior editor of Sky and Telescope magazine. The moon is the brightest, closest and smallest of the three and is 252,000 miles away. Venus, the second brightest, closest and smallest, is 94 million miles away, while Jupiter is 540 million miles away.
For the past month or longer, the planets of Venus and Jupiter have frequently been visible in the night sky. Tonight, as with last night), Astronomy Ireland is saying that there will be a particularly beautiful sight as Venus and Jupiter will be spectacularly bright in the western sky alongside a thin crescent Moon.