6 planets align in sky this week
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The planet parade is back once again, and this time six planets will align in the sky. Here's when and what planets will be a part of the parade.
A rare "planet parade" will happen soon. Here's when and where to look in Southeast Louisiana
Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field
General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of detectable circumbinary planets.
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Planets, constellations and more: Here's what to look out for around the new moon on Feb. 17
Grab your telescope and join us on a sightseeing tour, before the moon returns to spoil the fun!
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to the host star, and gas planets toward the exterior. That’s how planets are organized around our sun, with rocky Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars first in the lineup, followed by the gaseous Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.