This year has a lot of celestial wonder in store, from stunning meteor showers to a super blue moon and a ring of fire eclipse.
Jackie Faherty is an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She says the first thing to look out for are “naked eye planets — planets you can see without the aid of a telescope, like Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
According to Faherty, by January 22, Venus is going to be particularly close to Saturn, providing an opportunity to see “two bright objects” in close proximity to each other.
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