Watch the Planets Line Up With Crescent Moon in Rare Conjunction

Monday, March 26, 2012 - 14:20 in Astronomy & Space

Look toward the west tonight and you'll see Jupiter and Venus together, lining up with the crescent moon in a rare and beautiful conjunction. Venus is so bright you can see it during the day today, a few degrees above the sun, just like Abraham Lincoln famously did during his second inauguration. Cloudy skies? No problem - check here for a live feed of this event. On March 4, 1865, crowds attending Lincoln's inauguration noticed a bright star in the daytime sky, and even Lincoln himself pointed to it, according to an account posted at Space.com. Lincoln bodyguard Sergeant Smith Stimmellater described it thusly: "It was a little after midday at the time I saw it, possibly near one o'clock; the sun seemed to be a little west of the median, the star a little east. It was a strange sight. I never saw a star at that time in the...

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