{"id":448273,"date":"2026-02-27T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448273\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:45:11","slug":"six-planets-to-align-in-sky-in-cosmic-parade-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448273\/","title":{"rendered":"Six planets to align in sky in cosmic parade this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Six of the planets in the solar system will line up on Saturday in what is known as a planetary parade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  People will be able to spot Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Uranus and Neptune, with four planets visible to the naked eye.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Although they are in the lineup, experts say a telescope is needed to see Uranus and Neptune.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The planetary parade will start shortly after sunset on Saturday evening, weather permitting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The phenomenon takes place when the planets appear to line up in the sky from the Earth&#8217;s perspective.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All of these planets orbit around the Sun and take different times to complete a loop, but occasionally a few of them will reach a point at the same time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is fairly common for some of the planets to do this, but seeing six in a line at the same time is a pretty rare event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, in March last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/24978825.rare-planet-parade-dazzles-skygazers-across-norfolk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stargazers across Norfolk were dazzled<\/a> after getting a glimpse of a rare seven-planet parade that had not been seen in 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six of the planets in the solar system will line up on Saturday in what is known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-448273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}