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Credit & Copyright: Prasun Agrawal
Explanation:
Look up this week and see a whole bunch of planets.
Just after sunset, looking west (mostly), planets
Mercury,
Venus,
Saturn, and
Jupiter
will all be visible to the unaided eye simultaneously.
If you have a telescope, planets
Uranus and
Neptune can also be seen.
In order up from the horizon, the lineup this week will be
Venus (the brightest),
Mercury,
Saturn,
Neptune, Uranus, and
Jupiter (second brightest).
It doesn't matter where on
Earth
you live because this early evening
planet parade will be visible through
clear skies all around the globe.
The planets will appear to be nearly in a line because they all orbit the
Sun in nearly the same plane: the
ecliptic.
The featured image shows a
similar planet parade that occurred in 2022,
captured over the
Sydney Opera House in southern
Australia.
Although
visible all week, the planets will be most easily seen together this weekend.
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NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Jupiter
Publications with words: Jupiter
See also:
- APOD: 2026 January 18 Á Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope
- APOD: 2026 January 6 Á Jupiters Clouds in High Definition from Juno
- APOD: 2025 November 11 Á Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
- APOD: 2025 December 14 Á Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
- APOD: 2025 May 25 Á Beneath Jupiter
- Painting with Jupiter
- APOD: 2025 April 2 Á Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb