This New Year's Eve, five planets and the Moon will put on a spectacular show in the evening sky to celebrate the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, the United Nations International Year of Astronomy.
Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Jupiter and Mercury, along with our own Moon, will be visible in the evening skies over Ireland in the same stretch of sky. The most spectacular of all will be a blazing Venus beside the Moon. This event only happens a few times every century so don't miss out!