There's currently a six planet alignment. Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Neptune and UranusI can definitely see Mars, and I think Jupiter and a teeny blue Saturn! Not a great pic, can't see the colors, but if you take a gaze I bet you'll see them. (1)
The planets, January 13No, they are not "lined up ." It is cool that a bunch of them are above the horizon at the same time and can be viewed simultaneously, but there is nothing mystical about this. It has happened a few times before within my memory, and every time the... See More » (1)
My brain hurts...too much informationI just read in my Scientific American magazine that our solar system (sun and planets) is flying along at 241 km per second, orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy every 210 million years. I already felt insignificant, and this didn't help.
