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The four “parade planets” of the four planet-gabbamously called a planetary extension from several-actually visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time as the sunset will reach this weekend while Venus reaches brighter.
Although six planets are in the night sky, only four are visible to the naked eye. (That’s a … [+]
The main facts
Views with many plans are not rare. Six planets (Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn) are currently in the night sky, which occurs about once about three years or less. However, only four planets – Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn – are visible to the naked eye.
Stay out immediately after sunset when you are and you will see the Lower Mars in the East and Jupiter up to the southeast, with Uranus positioned in the south. Neptune, Venus and Saturn are all low in the west, so they set immediately after sunset. The Earth revolves from west to east, so the stars and planets appear to rise from below the eastern horizon and settle down the western horizon.
Other images to see as you observe the parade of planets include Gemini’s twin stars near Mars, Orion’s belt and its spectacular nebula below Jupiter, and glittering pleiades open to the group of stars just to the right of Jupiter. They can all be seen with the naked eye.
A bright light in the sky after sunset, Venus is the most visible planet for the naked eye. Lighting in the western sky, it will reach -4.5 the splendor of the size of Sunday, February 16, 2025, the brightest to take on its current show. Venus is always the third brightest object in the sky of night, after the sun and the moon, but it is waxed and fades in shine as its distance from the earth changes.
“The Planet Parade in 2025 is one of the best formations we have had for 45 years,” said Robin Scagell, Vice President of the Association for Popular Astronomy and Chairman of the National Astronomy in the UK from February. 1-9, 2025. “Not since April 1980, when Mars was near and we can see Jupiter, Saturn and Venus, there was such a fantastic opportunity to see half of the solar system in all its glory. “
Venus from now on will be seen lower in the sky as it gradually sinks into the brightness of the sun, reaching inferior (Switch between Earth and Sun) on March 22, 2025. Before that, March 12, 2025, Saturn will reach superior union (Switch around the remote side of the sun), effectively ending the current parade of the planet. With the disappearance of Venus and Saturn from the sky of night after the Sun in March, only Mars and Jupiter will remain easily visible.
Background
The phases and relative size of Venus as seen from the Earth as it moves around the sun. (Photo from … [+]
Venus is going closer to the Earth in its shorter orbit of the Sun, which requires 225 days of earth to end. The distance between the two planets will be shorter on the date of the inferior bond, to 38 million miles (61 million kilometers)-surrounding two fifths of the distance between the Earth and the Sun-all the planet will not be visible from the Earth.
For several months on both sides of the inferior connection, Venus is first seen in the evening sky (when it is called the “Star of the Evening”) and then in the pre-aging sky (when it is called “morning star”). For several weeks, on both sides of the inferior bond, its disk both grows in size and decreases in a thin crescent, similar to how we see the moon near the new new moon phase in order similar. Something similar happens to Mercury, the other inner planet from the Earth’s point of view. On February 16, 2025, Venus will only be 26%and a good pair of binoculars or any telescope will display it as a crescent.
‘Planetary approximation’ misinformation
Although being reported by many media as a rare planetary approximation, the formation of six worlds is nothing of the kind. Planets never line up. They are spread throughout the night sky, as they always are. Planets are always seen along an imaginary path across the sky called ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky of day, and the plain of the solar system. All this is different is that more planets than usually are visible from Earth night.
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