KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- Even though they're millions of miles apart, three heavenly bodies will appear close together for the next couple of nights.
Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon will seemingly form a face in the southwestern sky, with the planets being the eyes and the moon being the mouth.
If the clouds don't interfere, the experts say you can't miss it if you look toward the southwest around dusk on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
They say Venus is really bright.
"It almost looks like an airplane coming towards you with the front light kind of in your line of sight. If Jupiter were alone out there, it would look bright as well, but in comparison to Venus, it doesn't look as bright, but it's also quite bright," said Vayu Gokhale, Ph.D., Assistant Profession of Physics at Truman State University.
The event is called a planetary conjunction.
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