Australians See Smiley Face in Night Sky

FOXNews.com ^ | Monday, December 01, 2008 | FOXNews.com

[latina4dubya]

we saw this last night, but the moon was at the top and the planets were off to an angle left and below the moon...

[weegee]

So not only does water go down the drain backwards downunder, but they see :( as :) (and vice versa).

[Hot Tabasco]

Even took pictures of it when I landed on my smartphone.

Ouch! I imagine the only pic you got was a moon.........

[Texas_shutterbug]

I see an airplane, but I don’t see a smile.

[Verginius Rufus]

Mars and Mercury are also technically evening stars now, but both are too close to the sun to be seen. Mars will be in conjunction with the sun on Dec. 5 and then will become a morning star.

By the latter part of December Mercury should be visible in the evening sky. On the 29th, Mercury and Jupiter will be close together near the two-day-old crescent moon. Mercury passes Jupiter on the 31st. By then Venus will be quite a distance from Jupiter--the moon will pass Venus on the 31st, and Venus will be setting almost two hours after Jupiter.

[metmom]

No. Take a look at the sky now, if you can. The moon is shifting position.

[Constitution Day]

Take it up with Fox News, I was only quoting their website.

[Lonely Bull]

How stupid was that to say. It would simply be an upside down smiley face. I didn’t see a sarcasm claimer.

(:

[weegee]

I looked around 6:30pm CST and say an upside down frowny face.

[sig226]

Thanks. The cloud cover was fairly heavy in the evening last night, so it was mostly not visible. But every so often the three of them were visible at the same time, and very bright. Due to the cloud cover and Broward County’s ambient light, that was about all I could see. Very impressive.

[Rightly Biased]

It was a frowny face in Texas last night I told Mrs. Biased in Japan and Australia it was a smiley face.