NASA scientist Bill Cooke advised CBS News that the planets will align within the evening sky on March 28 and that the alignment will look “very pretty.”

Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will seem within the evening sky close to a waxing crescent Moon. While it needs to be seen from all components of the world, whether or not it is possible for you to to see it will likely be depending on the place you’re. For the very best probability of viewing the planets, you will have to attempt to get an unobstructed view of the horizon.

“Wait until the sun has set and then go out and look low in that bright part of the sky where the sun has just set with binoculars, and you should see brighter Jupiter next to fainter Mercury,” Rick Fienberg, senior contributing editor at Sky & Telescope journal, advised NPR.

According to Fienberg, Venus might be excessive within the sky and simpler to identify. But Uranus, which is able to seem close to Venus, will seem faint and can solely be seen when you’ve got binoculars. Mars will shine comparatively brighter close to the Moon.

This occasion just isn’t a real planetary alignment the place the planets will seem in a line, however it nonetheless presents the chance to see 5 completely different planets within the sky on the similar time.

An precise planetary alignment occurred in June final yr when Mercury, Venus, Mars Jupiter and Saturn aligned within the sky. That was the primary time that actually aligned within the earlier eighteen years and such an occasion is not going to really occur for one more forty years. The June occasion was additionally particular for one more cause–the 5 planets had been aligned in the identical order as their distance from the Sun.