In this month, six planets are hanging in the sky which is known as a planetary parade. Hold the spectacle when you can do it because this is the last one of the year.
These linkups occur when many planets line up in the night sky at once. Such parades are quite common, which are around every year depending on the number of planets. According to NASA, at least one bright planet can be seen mostly on the permission of the weather.
Six planets were visible in the January sky and every planet of our solar system was visible in February, but not everyone could be seen with naked eyes.
Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and an unconscious mercury are visible this month without any special equipment, and the best chance to spot them is more than next week. Uranus and Neptune can only be reflected through binoculars and telescopes.
Jupiter and Venus built a close brush earlier this week and still have each other in the eastern sky, “Cat’s eyes closed together,” said Caroline Summers in Houston Museum of Natural Science.
On Tuesday morning, Mercury from Sun will be at its farthest point, which will make it easier before it disappears in the dazzle of the sun.
To catch the planets, go out in the morning shortly before the sunrise and look at the east. First try to find Jupiter and Venus. Saturn is on the side and Mercury will be close to the horizon, trying to get up before the sun.
“You are looking for small pinpoints of light, but they are the most bright,” Justin Bartel said with Virginia’s Science Museum. “They do not actually twinkle like stars.”
Before going out, make sure it is a clear, cloudy morning and try to move away from long buildings that can block the scene.
Mercury will again hide behind the sun towards the end of the month, but a semi chandrakar moon will again join the parade. The next big planet hangout is in February.