Omnipresent fireworks displays won’t be the only lights in the sky over the next few nights: There will be natural spectacles, too.
Seeing them may take some planning, some luck and perhaps a pair of binoculars. But stargazers who get themselves in the right place at the right time will have a chance to commune with a celestial display older than even the very old tradition of fireworks.
The New Year will mark the end of a span, several nights long, in which the seven other planets in the solar system are all visible in the night sky. Then, on Jan. 3, the Quadrantids meteor shower will peak.
