Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are lining up in the western sky after sunset this week — and a Blue Moon is sliding past Antares — in a run of evening sky events that won’t be matched again for years

The evening sky in the last week of May 2026 is doing several things at once, none of which is, on close examination, particularly rare in isolation, but the combination of which produces a viewing window that the wider astronomy register has been characterizing as the most worthwhile evening sky configuration of the year. The [...] The post Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are lining up in the western sky after sunset this week — and a Blue Moon is sliding past Antares — in a run of evening sky even