Check Out Tonight’s Sky After Sunset; It May Be Like The One The Wise Men Saw

It May Be Like The One The Wise Men Saw Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | Science News with Edit (The Associated Press)

From Greenville Online:

If you haven’t seen the southwestern sky just after sunset, and even if you have, feast your eyes tonight — it may be the same spectacular show that drew the wise men to Bethlehem in search of a newborn king.

From our vantage point on the planet, it’s a glowing triangle of Venus, Jupiter and the waxing crescent moon.

“Tonight would be another good night to get out,” said astronomer Doug Gegen of the Roper Mountain Science Center.

The weather forecast is mostly clear.

“The fun part of this is it’s all a naked eye kind of thing so everybody can enjoy it,” Gegen said.

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