A ‘Planet Parade’ is Now in Alignment for Viewing Our Solar System This Week

Next Saturday, the 28th of February, stargazers will have the chance to spot Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all clustered together in the sky. Called a planetary alignment, they occur when the planets, which orbit atop the same horizonal line—called the ecliptic plane—happen to pass by the same point in the sky at […] The post A ‘Planet Parade’ is Now in Alignment for Viewing Our Solar System This Week appeared first on Good News Network.