As Six Orbs Appear To Align, Get Ready To Enjoy Planet Parade
Read more: Found here Headlines: Later this month and into February, six of our solar system's eight planets will snap to attention and march in something like a long, bent line — or two separate line segments, anyway — from east to west across the early evening sky. While they'll be doing that for many weeks, Jan. 21 marks the peak of what's called a planetary alignment, which simply means a bunch of planets assembling in the same section of sky. They may look like they're arranged in tight formation. But remember, that's a grand illusion. The planets' orbits around the sun are concentric ovals of cosmically different sizes, so...
