Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

From our viewpoint on Earth, they don’t appear perfectly aligned but rather follow a curved path across the sky. The following is an illustration of what the night sky could roughly look like ...

Six planets will still be possible to see in one ecliptic plane in the southern and eastern night sky, just after sunset: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (Note: The circled planets ...

They all go around at different speeds and every now and then the speeds make it so they all line up such that if you happen to be on one of those bodies, like Earth, you can actually view the other ...