Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset "planet parade."
Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet image of the planet.
Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, viewers should look towards the south in the evening sky, using the bright star Fomalhaut in the nearby Piscis Austrinus constellation as a guide to locate Aquarius.
January 2025 ushers in an extraordinary planetary parade as Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars align in a rare and dazzling celestial event. This conjunction, visible throughout the month, presents a spectacular opportunity for stargazers to witness four of ...
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Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there's more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high an hour after sunset, the bright, magnitude 0.1 star Capella stands high above Mars and to Jupiter's upper left.
Rare planetary alignment featuring Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars promises celestial splendour in the southern hemisphere's twilight skies.
MARS, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Venus are set to align in the sky next week in a six-strong ‘planetary parade’. All the planets in our solar system, except Mercury and
Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map the abundance of ammonia in Jupiter 's atmosphere, but Hill ultimately found something that contradicted previous models of the gas giant's atmospheric composition to begin with.
Six planets will be in alignment this weekend, with four of them shining bright in one sweeping view. What to know about the planet parade.
Stargazers in Hyderabad can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in the January skies. Find out how to see these planets without a telescope, as shared by N. Sree Raghunandan Kumar in