How YOU can see Jupiter and the 'half' moon join up in the night sky TONIGHT during rare cosmic event

An eerie glowing light will slowly trail beneath the moon tonight, following Earth's natural satellite across the sky, early into the morning and onward past dawn. If the weather is clear where you live currently, tonight will be a rare occasion to see Jupiter at its brightest, with little celestial competition adding light to the darkness. One astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy took advantage of Jupiter's proximity around this time last year, capturing the gas giant in such extraordinary detail that it appears to look like a marble floating in space Astrophysicist and Astrophotographer David Blanchflower took some snaps of Jupiter and the moon over night in the UK, as well as a few pics of Jupiter's largest moons Jupiter is 'currently shining at -2.4 magnitude,' Rao wrote in a column for Space.com this week, 'more than 2 and a half times brighter than the brightest star, Sirius.' Jupiter's orbit has currently brought it 40.2 light minutes from Earth, and it will only become brighter in the night sky onward into mid-autumn, when it will reach just 33.1 light minutes away. To find Jupiter tonight, Rao advises extending your clutched fist at arm's length and extend that first toward the half moon.