Five planets aligned in night sky ~ The Washington Post

by Jerry Roberts, posted in ARTICLES & NEWS, ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE, MOUNTAIN ~ DESERT ~ OCEAN ~ NEWS & STORIES ~, PHOTOS

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Mercury (not shown), Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will align in a diagonal. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Five planets are aligned in night sky for the first time in 18 years

The best planetary party in almost two decades has begun. Like a 17th-century astronomer, you can join it by just looking up.

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