BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire.
This week we have a "close approach" of the planet Saturn and the Earth’s moon.
On Sunday, Jan. 14, the two heavenly bodies will appear close together in the night sky, just after sunset.
In reality, they are quite far from each other.
The moon, only about 224,000 miles away, while Saturn is about 972 million miles from Earth.
The pair will be 7 degrees apart, according to NASA, with the planet to the lower right of the growing young crescent moon.