"Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. The "Christmas Star" may have historically been when Jupiter and Saturn were in conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn or a conjunction between Jupiter and Venus, according to astronomy.com.

While looking at holiday lights over the next few nights you might catch a glimpse of a bright spot in the sky above. The 'Christmas star' will be bright enough to see with just your eyes as Jupiter moves closer in orbit in the coming weeks.