But on Monday night, Jupiter and Saturn seemed to have become a double planet in the night sky for star gazers in the Northern Hemisphere, a bright spot to cap off.

What has bean a very fraught year for many Astronomers call this the great conjunction.

But given the timing, many are calling it the Christmas Star on speculating about whether they also crossed paths two millennia ago to form a bright light that guided the biblical three kings.

Jupiter and Saturn are our solar system's two largest planets on, although their orbits briefly aligned them from the Earth Innings standpoint.

In reality, the two frozen gas spheres are hundreds of millions of miles apart.

The last time they had such a celestial meeting was in the year 12 26 long before telescopes were invented.

Those who missed it may get another chance to see the phenomenon.