Astronomers Have All Eyes on the Sky Thanksgiving Night

Astronomers have all eyes set on a light show on Thanksgiving night when Jupiter and Venus will being to light up the sky. They will be the brightest objects in the sky and a bit hard to miss. The two planets will appear only 2 degrees apart on Sunday and Monday.

While looking up at the sky, the two planets will be the width of a finger held out at arm's length. Both Jupiter and Venus will be joined by a crescent moon on Monday night.

"It'll be a head-turner," Alan MacRobert, senior editor at Sky and Telescope magazine, said in a statement. "This certainly is an unusual coincidence for the crescent moon to be right there in the days when they are going to be closest together," he added.

This event happens only every generation. The same event won't take place again until November 2052.