Nevertheless, the optical illusion made it seem like the two planets were practically kissing each other, forming a bright splash in the sky, which is known as the Christmas Star or the Bethlehem star.
However, it might simply be a coincidence that the great conjunction happened on this year s winter solstice and very close to the actual Christmas day and since the two planets will be moving slowly from each other, they will still appear much closer to each other in the coming days.
Although they won t form the great Christmas Star, we might see both planets in our skies during Christmas day.