Heads up, skygazers: Venus and Jupiter to appear almost kissing in the sky on March 2

Ready your telescope and binoculars, stargazers! Venus and Jupiter will be at their closest point to each other and appear as if they're almost kissing on March 2. 

According to the celestial calendar of events released by NASA on Jan. 31, the brightest and the biggest planets will be only half a degree apart tonight.

This yearly phenomenon is called a conjunction which happens when "two celestial bodies—usually planets—look very close in the sky from our viewpoint on Earth," space physicist Martin Archer told New Scientist.

“The reason it happens is all the planets around the sun orbit in roughly the same plane, called the ecliptic. That means from any given viewpoint, there might be a time where the planets would be kind of at the same angle," Archer added.

Although conjunctions happen frequently because "inner planets orbit faster than the Earth does," tonight's celestial event only happens once every year.

If the skies are clear tonight, stargazers will get to see Jupiter and Venus almost touching each other, with only a 0.5-degree distance.

“They will be 17 degrees above the western horizon as evening twilight ends at 6:58 p.m. EST and will set together about 1.5 hours later (at 8:31 p.m.),” NASA said in the statement.  

In an instance of cloudy skies, you will still have the chance to see both planets on March 3 a degree away from each other.