Night sky is about to light up with rare planetary alignment

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...
The next "great conjunction" of Jupiter and Saturn will ... appearing extra big and bright in the night sky starting on Saturday. At opposition, Jupiter will shine at a magnitude of -2.8, ...
I have an absolute passion for the winter constellations that are now putting on their wonderful winter show in the southeastern sky. If you’ve been nice enough to be a longtime reader of my Skywatch ...
For context, during the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in ... a great example of how bright the moon can be in the night sky, try to be out on the peak night of the Perseids this ...
Mississippi stargazers will be able to see 4 or 5 planets in the night sky with their naked eye this month. Will you be able ...
The dwarf planet 1 Ceres is in conjunction with the Sun at 5 P.M ... The fainter planet will look better as the night sky darkens, but you’re also racing the clock before it gets too close ...
Mars will appear to make an ultraclose approach to the moon on Sunday, after Jupiter had a turn earlier this week. Here's how to get the best view of the rare conjunction.
And it could be even better, because this particular event is an alignment of seven planets. " Planetary alignment is an astronomical term used to describe the event when several planets gather ...