[Even if it’s cloudy in the PNW, it still happens]
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT |||
Six of the planets of the Solar System are about to line up for a rare sight in Earth’s sky.
In the wee small hours of 3 and 4 June 2024, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will appear in a straight line in an alignment known as a planet parade. Only Venus will be absent – even Earth’s waning crescent moon is going to put in an appearance.
It’s not uncommon for several planets to be in the sky at once, but it’s less common for more planets to align. Any number of planets from three to eight constitutes an alignment. Five or six planets assembling is known as a large alignment, but five-planet alignments are significantly more frequent than six.
