Skywatchers are in for a treat this March with a five-planet alignment where Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will appear in the night sky.
NASA scientist Bill Cooke told CBS News that the planets will align in the night sky
on March 28 and that the alignment will look “very pretty.”
Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will appear in the night sky
near a waxing crescent Moon. While it should be visible from all parts of the
world, whether you will be able to see it will be dependent on where you are.
For the best chance of viewing the planets, you will need to try and get an
unobstructed view of the horizon.
"Wait until the sun has set and then
go out and look low in that bright part of the sky where the sun has just set
with binoculars, and you should see brighter Jupiter next to fainter
Mercury," Rick Fienberg, senior contributing editor at Sky & Telescope
magazine, told NPR.
According to Fienberg, Venus will be high in the sky and easier to spot.
But Uranus, which will appear near Venus, will appear faint and will only be
visible if you have binoculars. Mars will shine relatively brighter near the
Moon.
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This event is not a true planetary alignment where the planets will
appear in a line, but it still presents the opportunity to see five different
planets in the sky at the same time.
An actual planetary alignment happened in June last year when Mercury,
Venus, Mars Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the sky. That was the first time that
truly aligned in the previous eighteen years and such an event will not
actually happen for another forty years. The June event was also special for
another reason–the five planets were aligned in the same order as their
distance from the Sun.
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