Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.
Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...
On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...
Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in ... It is not just within our Solar System that planet alignments are useful. Astronomers use alignments to probe many different aspects of ...
Witness a rare celestial spectacle! Seven planets, including Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, will ...
Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn, already visible to the naked eye, will be joined by Mercury, Neptune & Uranus in a rare ...
The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.
In 1977, NASA had launched a twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, to take a "grand tour" of the outer Solar System on the occasion of a similar planetary alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.