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Common but unmissable: six planets aligned as of today

Havana, Jan 21 (Prensa Latina) The planetary alignment of Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn that will take place today is a common astronomical event, but still, unmissable.

According to specialized sites, the brightest planets, such as Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn, will be visible with the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune will require telescopes due to their dim luminosity.

The phenomenon can be observed from all parts of the world and will last for several days after today.

The planetary “alignment” is actually a perspective effect and does not mean that the planets are perfectly aligned in space, but that the sky shows a visible arrangement of bright planets in the night sky.

According to astronomers, it is a constant event, since all the planets of the solar system orbit around the Sun in paths called orbits, which have small inclinations, but not so much that they move too far away from the same line in the sky.

The imaginary line in the sky is called the ecliptic and arises because the Earth also orbits the Sun in a plane, and we project that plane into the sky as a reference.

Based on that statement, from our position on Earth, it appears that the planets are placed in a row or close to the ecliptic, although in reality each one is in its own orbit and at different distances from the Sun.

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