The planets Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn align in cosmic healing for sky watchers. Here’s how to find out

Skywatchers await this moon’s cosmic cure: a rare alignment of the four planets in the pre-dawn sky.

Starting around Sunday morning, stargazers will be able to see Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn appear in a straight line across the southeastern sky before sunrise.

The mid-moon alignment is a relatively unusual opportunity for people to see the many planets in the sky with the naked eye – a precursor to the much rarer planetary alignment that will occur later this year.

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To see quadruple planets, sky watchers at Southern Hemisphere He had to go outside about an hour before sunrise and look southeast at sunrise.

Looking east on a flat horizon, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn will appear ‘pointed in a line across the morning sky’ According to NASA.

If conditions were clear, the four planets would be bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, without the aid of binoculars or telescopes.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the Sun’s trajectory in the sky is at a steeper angle to the horizon than in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning that the series of planets will spread out above the point at which the sun rises.

The same alignment can be seen before sunrise in the Northern Hemisphere.

Either way, Jupiter will be the second brightest planet in the celestial pool, but it will appear lowest on the horizon, which can make it difficult to spot. That will change as the moon goes on, according to NASA.

“As we approach the last week of April, Jupiter will be high enough above the horizon in the hours before sunrise to facilitate its observations,” the space agency said in its message. Monthly news report on sky watching tips.

Although this lunar skywatching event makes it appear like the planets are forming a neat line in space, it’s really just a matter of perspective.

Every planet in the solar system revolves around the sun in the same plane, meaning that when each oscillates in its orbit sometimes, they appear to form a straight line across Earth’s sky.

However, this regular mode will look very different from other observation points in space.

The planets will be visible in the sky before dawn throughout the month, and the April alignment will set the stage for more exciting sky-viewing events this winter.

From late June to early July, the five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — will be visible in the sky before sunrise in a grand alignment that only occurs every few years.

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