openLangley

Update: photo below from China Daily.

Look up in the sky tonight for an unusual occurrence – a crescent moon right next to Venus and Jupiter.

Read more about it here.

“A very close conjunction of the crescent moon and a bright star or planet can be an awe-inspiring naked-eye spectacle. The English poet, critic and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) used just such a celestial sight as an ominous portent in his epic, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.”