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After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.

He said, “We’ll be able to see all the planets in a line Tuesday night ... known as the ecliptic. Since Earth shares this same plane, we see the planets as bright beads strung along ...

After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.

With Mercury joining the show, all seven of Earth’s celestial neighbors ... they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels ...

No. From our viewpoint on Earth, the planets will form an arc, not a straight line. This is due to the ecliptic plane, the path along which the planets orbit the sun. The moonlight will not ...

A visible line of planets has for weeks been the talk of astronomers ... a website dedicated to cosmic news. The ecliptic is also the reason that we on Earth sometimes observe planets appearing to ...