Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

4) — and you can watch it live. The gigantic space rock ... distance of 1.37 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Earth at 0:27 ET — its closest approach to our planet on record ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.