This is interesting. There will be a celestial show tonight as the sun goes down. Just on the horizon three planets will be visible in close proximity, relatively speaking.

Why is this important? It isn't really, unless you are into checking stuff out like that. The story about it in one of the online papers is kind of interesting though.....

Deceiving

And while star-gazers will be able to obscure all three planets simply by holding their outstretched thumb to the sky, Young reminds them appearances can be deceiving.

"In reality, the planets are millions of kilometres apart," he said. "They only appear close in the sky because of our perspective. Saturn is actually over a billion kilometres behind Mercury."

Are there people in the world, adults I mean, that do not know the planets are millions of miles apart, regardless of where they are in the sky relative to our point of view? I would hope very few. This is something Jay Leno needs to investigate....