Just before midnight tonight, look to the southeast skies to see a bright, red, glowing Mars in the night skies because the planet will begin it’s approach to its closest point to Earth in a decade.
Mars hasn’t been this close to Earth since November 2005 and it’ll make for quite the sight for stargazers around the world when it reaches its peak point in six weeks on May 30.
The red planet is taking a zigzag pattern across our spring skies as it goes into retrograde and for the past month has been slowing its apparent eastward movement across the night sky culminating in what will appear like it has stopped moving altogether tonight.
Mars will be 97 million miles closer to Earth and shine 10 times brighter than it did at the start of this year.