Blank Room

An unusual celestial vanishing act will take place the night of Sept. 2 when all four of Jupiter’s largest moons will be hidden from our view.

The event will occur on a night when Jupiter happens to be positioned very close to Earth’s moon in the southeastern sky. The two objects, though very far apart in space, will be about 5 degrees from each other in our sky (your fist on an outstretched arm covers about 10 degrees of sky). This pairing makes Jupiter, which outshines all stars and so is easy to spot, even easier for anyone to locate.

Anyone who points a small telescope at Jupiter will nearly always see some or all of the four well-known Galilean satellites. Usually at least two or three of these moons, and sometimes all four, are immediately evident as small star-like points of light.

From space.com. A rare occurrence. It may not bring any impact to us, but if ure interested you can even see it with the naked eye, subjected to the condition of the sky of course, no cloud blocking the view.