Will a 'rare' lineup of planets be visible to the naked eye in the night sky on June 3?

An illustration of the night sky showing six planets and the moon in a line in front of the background stars.

One of things that I have enjoyed in my more than 22 years of writing the Night Sky column for Space.com is alerting readers to hoaxes or celestial falsehoods that are widely circulated on the internet. 

While I have done my best to steer readers clear of such fallacies, I'm still amazed about just how many people take them as fact. In recent years, some of these claims that have spread widely online have been pretty much off the wall. So much so that you would think that very few, if any in our modern, technological 21st century world, would be fooled.