Where, How To See 6 Planets Align In January, February

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The planets are lining up , forming a rare and special parade across the night sky in January and February.

Four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars — are bright enough to see with the naked eye this month. Uranus and Neptune are visible with a telescope.

They'll be "strewn across" the sky and look like extra bright stars , the astrophotographer Dan Bartlett told Business Insider.

"Mars is brighter than any of the stars right now," he added. " Jupiter is bright. Venus is spectacular."

In late February, as Saturn and Neptune descend into the glare of the sun, Mercury will rise above the nighttime horizon. So you can see every planet in our solar system over the next month.

Though they appear in an arc across the sky, the planets aren't actually arranged in a straight line in space .

In fact, according to the stargazing website EarthSky , a perfect straight-line alignment of all the planets will probably never happen.

Rather, since the planets all orbit along or near the plane of our solar system, called the ecliptic, they appear in a line across the sky. It's the same reason the sun always follows the same path across the sky. That's nothing special.