Astrophysicist captures the planetary parade.
and Saturn, plus the moon. It was an amazing sight, all the four planets were very easy to see," Masi told Live Science in an email.will join the line-up in mid-June. Planetary alignments occur when the planets' orbits bring them to the same region of the sky, when viewed from
. These planetary alignments are not rare, but they're not regularly occurring, either: The last time five planets aligned in the night sky was in 2020, preceded by alignments in 2016 and 2005. These alignments take time to develop. Venus, Mars, and Saturn have been night-sky neighbors since late March.
, they came so close together, when viewed from Earth, that Mars and Saturn appeared less far apart than the width of the full moon in the southeast early morning sky. Jupiter turned the trio into a foursome in mid-April. Then the moon appeared in its last quarter phase to Saturn's right on April 23. Mars looks like an orange dot below and to the left of Saturn, while Venus is a brighter light below and to the left of Mars. Jupiter is the lowest and leftmost in the sky.
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