Starting this week, you can watch five planets in the evening sky as a crescent moon rises higher each night.
From Thursday, March 23 through Thursday, March 30, it will be possible to see Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars soon after sunset as a waxing crescent moon appears to make a tour of five planets.
How, When And Where To See The Solar System's Biggest And Smallest Planets 'Collide' After Sunset
However, while giant Jupiter is sinking into the Sun's glare—soon to appear in the predawn night sky—tiny Mercury is on the cusp of reaching its highest position in 2023 above the horizon after sunset.
Here's everything you need to know to see a rare conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury with your naked eyes:
5 planets could be visible in the night sky next week – WABE
Look up later this month, and you might be in for an out-of-this world sight — no telescope required.
Five planets — Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will be visible across the night sky for many viewers on Earth around March 27 and 28.
The celestial bodies will appear in a strip of sky beside the waxing crescent moon , but experts say what you’ll see will depend largely on where you are.
Small stars may host bigger planets than previously thought - Press Releases
Stars with less than half the mass of our Sun are able to host giant Jupiter-style planets, in conflict with the most widely accepted theory of how such planets form, according to a new study led by UCL and University of Warwick researchers.
Gas giants, like other planets, form from disks of material surrounding young stars. According to core accretion theory, they first form a core of rock, ice and other heavy solids, attracting an outer layer of gas once this core is sufficiently massive (about 15 to 20 times that of Earth).
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