MOON, VENUS AND JUPITER APPEAR VERY NEAR TO EACH OTHER

MOON, VENUS AND JUPITER APPEAR VERY NEAR TO EACH OTHER

Tomorrow, the Moon, Venus and Jupiter - the second, third and fourth brightest objects of the sky after the sun - will appear to be clustered together. View the sight from any location with a clear view of the west, with as few horizon obstructions as possible.

Look to the western sky at dusk tomorrow, and you may see three celestial bodies clustered together in a divine meeting.

The Moon, Venus and Jupiter - the second, third and fourth brightest objects in the sky after the Sun, and in reality millions of kilometres apart, will appear to be almost side by side.

The crescent Moon will appear as just a small silver sliver, and look as though it is hanging nearer to Jupiter. Even though Venus is smaller than Jupiter, it is brighter, due to its closer position to the Sun.

During that conjunction, the two planets were separated by a distance less than the diameter of a full moon, with star-gazers able to "block" both Venus and Jupiter behind their little finger, said the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is 77 million km from Earth, and Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun and the solar system's largest, is 909 million km away.

While it is not all that rare for the two planets to get so close to each other, the viewing angle at many latitudes and the time of day made the conjunction a particularly spectacular event, which some star-gazers have likened to the biblical "Star of Bethlehem" that led the magi to baby Jesus.

Many have referred the event as ‘Star of Bethlehem’ that led to the birth of Jesus. As per astronomers, the way planets were arranged were almost same to the way they were 2,000 years ago when the Christ was born.