The night sky offers us a variety of spectacles throughout the year, but for the remainder of the month, we have front-row seats to see—not one or two—but seven planets at once.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory ...

Eclipses don't happen every month because the moon orbits Earth on an orbital path that's slightly different from the ecliptic (the sun's path through our daytime sky). Although that orbital path ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along the same line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere ...

(Important note: Saturn and Mercury will switch spots later in the week. Eventually Saturn will leave the view heading down below horizon as Mercury appears to move up the ecliptic.) Good news! The ...

Because they travel along the same path, or ecliptic, as they pass Earth, it appears they are aligned. The alignment formation, however, is short-lived because planets move at different speeds.

While no telescope is needed to spot these planets, the best viewing times are shortly after sunset, when they appear prominently along the ecliptic—the apparent path of the sun across the sky.

Interestingly, they'll always appear along the same arc in the night sky. That path is called the ecliptic, and it exists because all planets in our solar system orbit around the sun on roughly ...

According to Space.com, the planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always ...

The gnomon is a right-angled triangle. The slanting side is at an angle of 28.4° to the ground, meant to match what was thought to be Delhi’s latitude in those days (it is taken as 28.7° today ...