April has offered a unique celestial sight. A unique alignment of four planets in our solar system will appear in the sky.
Highlights
- A unique alignment of four planets in our solar system will appear in the sky this month.
- The alignment of Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye and via telescopes.
- The rare event is due to all of the planets’ orbits around the sun lining up, according to NASA.
- The spectacle began on Sunday, April 17th and will last through Wednesday, April 24th.
- Jupiter began to rise in the pre-dawn hour by the middle of the month, making for a quartet of planets, strung out in a line across the morning sky, NASA said.
- According to NASA, the conjunction may be visible around the world in the early morning hours.