What's the triangular shaped group of stars near the moon??

Anyone?

lol ive been wondering bout that too.

Mars is right under the moon
Saturn is to the right
Spica is to the left

Thanks for that Rickster.
Lining up so perfectly to create that shape..? interesting!

Yep just seen it - weird

It was beautiful last night! Perfect, huge, orange thumbnail moon just hanging on the horizon with this perfect triangle of stars!

What is 'weird' about it?

Because the major planets orbit the Sun in a relatively flat plane, they always follow a path in the sky within a few degrees of the ecliptic.
They move around at different rates, so they are bound to catch up and/or pass by fairly close to each other, quite regularly.
And - there are a number of fairly bright stars near the ecliptic (Just off the top of my head I can think of Regulus, Aldebaran, Spica, Antares and Pollux - Castor, Procyon, Betelgeuse and Bellatrix aren't too far away from it either)

So why should it seem weird when a couple of planets happen to pass close to one of those stars and make a triangle shape?

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Its called the constellation fuckwit

Niburu.

Hey Op the Triangle has gone now

OP: the moon moves across the night sky, and relative to us on earth, the stars rotate too (about a different point) ... so it's not very helpful to say it's near the moon!

Also, three points will ALWAYS make a triangle. Did you mean an equilateral triangle? hmm...

It looked like an equilateral triangle.........