Unique and rare astronomical phenomena, planets visible in the same night sky

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Everyone planet in the solar system visible in the night sky at the same time on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.

According to the information of The Guardian, quoted on Thursday (12/29/2022), every planet in the solar system was visible simultaneously in the night sky last Wednesday. This phenomenon is considered by experts as astronomical events which is rare.

Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars can all be seen sequentially across the northern hemisphere with the naked eye, starting at the southwestern horizon and moving eastward.

Uranus, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, and Neptune, which lies between Saturn and Jupiter, can be seen with binoculars or a telescope until the end of the year.

The eight planets appeared just 1.5 degrees apart on Wednesday night and will reach conjunction – their closest point – on Thursday at 21:00 GMT.

The planets can be seen in the lower west, with the clearest appearance expected about 30 minutes after sunset, with Venus disappearing about 40 minutes later, every day until the end of the year.

Gianluca Masi, an astronomer with the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy, told Newsweek: ‘On these nights, we can glimpse all the planets in solar system us as soon as the sun sets. It happens from time to time, but it’s always a spectacular sight.”

Mercury is the hardest planet to see without magnification because it is in the brightest part of the sky. However, it can be seen near a much brighter Venus.

video-gallery--item__video-caption_read-video-article">Astronomical phenomena will decorate the sky throughout the month of December. Starting from meteor showers, from planetary conjunctions, to annular solar eclipses.