A once in a lifetime astronomical event is happening Monday night and the best part is you won’t need a telescope or binoculars to witness it.
What’s being called the Christmas Star is not really a star but instead the planets Jupiter and Saturn coming so close to each other that they will appear to be one giant star.
“They’re almost like one star tonight when you go out there to look at them,” said Dr. Derek Buzasi, a Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Science and astronomer at Florida Gulf Coast University.
The pair of planets come this closely together about once every 400 years, Buzasi said.