Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with fleet-footed Mercury remaining nearby close to With Mercury sticking low to the horizon in the hour preceding
To find the planetary line-up, stargazers should look to the eastern sky below the head of the western great fish represented in the constellation Pisces a few hours before sunrise on May 8, which will occur for viewers in New York at 5:46 a.m. (0946 GMT). All three of the tightly packed worlds will have risen above the horizon by 4:15 a.m., with Venus (magnitude -4.38) on the left, and Saturn (magnitude 1.18) on the right.
