Planetary Alignment June 2024: How To See 6 Planets Align In The Sky
21.05.2024 - 16:17
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is coming next month—on June 3, to be exact.
There will be a planetary alignment, which means you may actually be able to see six planets align in the sky.
So, if you missed the magical display of the northern lights recently, you could get another chance to witness something truly special in the night's sky in just a few weeks.We spoke to , a lecturer at University College London's Physics and Astronomy Department, to find out a little more about the planetary alignment, and our best chances of seeing Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the sky together.“A planetary alignment is an astronomical event that happens when, by coincidence, the orbits of several of the planets of the Solar System bring them to roughly the same side of the Sun at the same time,” says Pattle.
“This means that they appear in a line on the sky, when we view them from the Earth.
In this case, the planets Jupiter, , Uranus, Mars, Neptune, and Saturn will form a line across the sky, in that order.”Kate adds that, in this instance, “planetary alignment” refers to the planets visibly lining up in the sky—also known as a “planetary parade”—but they won't be in actual orbital alignment.“It’s important to emphasize that the planets aren’t forming a straight line in space—that’s a much rarer astronomical event called a syzygy,” she says.
"However, because all the planets, including the Earth, orbit around the Sun in roughly the same orientation (moving in which we call the “Plane of the Ecliptic”), when they’re on the same side of the Sun as each other, they appear to form a line in the sky when we view them from Earth.”Kate also emphasizes that although the planets' orbits have brought them to the same side of the Sun as each other,
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