The best opportunity to potentially see all seven planets is coming up on Feb. 28 around 6:10 p.m. ET, according to Shanahan. Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun, would be the first to be ...

Saturn and Venus -- will be visible simultaneously and look like they're all aligned when seen from Earth after sunset. A long awaited astronomical event dubbed as the planet parade or planetary ...

The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does ... causing the multi-day timeline of the planetary parades. Lineups of four or five planets occur every few years, according ...

This means that the planets look like a straightish line from our viewpoint on Earth—but are ... While the planetary parade technically aligns on the last day of February, many of the planets ...

With Mercury joining the show, all seven of Earth’s celestial neighbors will ... Still, the planetary parade, as the event is colloquially named, “makes for a very nice excuse to go outside ...