Three planets hover close together with a bright star in our western sky this weekend. Venus, the brightest, appears in the middle between red Mars on the viewer's left and Mercury on the extreme right. The fairly bright star Regulus appears right above Venus. As close as they appear to each other, their distance from us is extreme.
Venus is the closest at only 33 million miles away. No celestial object other than the moon gets close.
Mercury is 108 million miles away and Mars is a distant 213 million miles away.