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Catch a glimpse of a rare planetary alignment—before it’s too late
Don’t worry if you missed the peak evening to view the spectacular line-up of planets. Here’s how to see them for the rest of the week.
Look to the cosmos around sunset this week for a glimpse of five major planets—Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars—lining up with the moon.
Even if you missed the peak alignment on Tuesday evening, experts say there’s still time to catch this lineup of Earth’s neighbors. Here’s what you need to know about what causes this phenomenon, how rare it is, and—most critically—how to see it.
Andrew Fazekas, the Night Sky Guy and lead author of the National Geographic Stargazer’s Atlas, tells Nat Geo that the five planets will appear in a diagonal line in the southwest sky on Wednesday, March 29.
If you grab a pair of binoculars, you’ll see Mercury and
