Five planets to see at once, in a neat row – Dutch Newspaper

 

 For the first time in ten years, you can see five planets at once while standing neatly in a row. Look just before dawn at the horizon, from south to west.
 

 

 

Utrecht

 

With the naked eye you can see five planets, namely Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. You can see them rarely all five at once, because there is almost always one or two close before the sun, so that they disappear completely in the solar flare. Planets give itself no light, they reflect the light from the sun, as is done at the moon.

 The conjunction of five planets can be seen until February 20, around half past eight in the morning. Just before sunrise, the giant planet Jupiter almost to the west. The red planet Mars is closer to the horizon, in the south …
 

 

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