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Related: About this forumA Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is Taking Place in The Sky This Week
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-rare-alignment-of-7-planets-is-taking-place-in-the-sky-this-weekA very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.
On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in a neat row a magnificent sky feast for the eyes known as a great planetary alignment.
It's not uncommon for a few planets to be on the same side of the Sun at the same time, but it's less common for most, or even all of the planets to align like this.
Any number of planets from three to eight constitutes an alignment. Five or six planets assembling is known as a large alignment, with five-planet alignments significantly more frequent than six.
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SheltieLover
Feb 25
OP
If you do see it, remember to look down at the ground to include the 8th planet.
GreenWave
Feb 25
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no_hypocrisy
(50,587 posts)1. Decades ago, I knew a middle school teacher who used to freak out his
science classes by discussing this planetary alignment. And he'd fool with them, telling them that a magnetic field caused by this alignment would pull the Earth apart. And it would happen the next year. And the kids bought it. They'd be thinking their lives would be over before they could get their drivers licenses, etc.
Yeah, kinda cruel, but they never cut class and remembered nearly everything he told them.
SheltieLover
(64,213 posts)2. Guy sounds like a jerk

no_hypocrisy
(50,587 posts)3. Trust me, he was.
My mother/brother set me up on a date with him. I ended it early.
GreenWave
(10,585 posts)4. If you do see it, remember to look down at the ground to include the 8th planet.
PJMcK
(23,363 posts)5. But... but... but... Pluto?!
(wink)
nitpicked
(1,030 posts)6. Daily Mail (via MSN): link to photo montage showing all 7 planets plus Earth