{"id":190467,"date":"2024-06-01T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T01:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/dont-miss-the-planetary-parade-witness-six-planets-align-in-a-rare-display"},"modified":"2024-06-01T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T01:24:20","slug":"dont-miss-the-planetary-parade-witness-six-planets-align-in-a-rare-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/dont-miss-the-planetary-parade-witness-six-planets-align-in-a-rare-display","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Miss the \u201cPlanetary Parade\u201d \u2014 Witness Six Planets Align in a Rare Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-miss-the-planetary-parade-witness-six-planets-align-in-a-rare-display2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On June 3, an alignment of six planets\u2014Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune \u2014will be visible shortly before sunrise from dark, high vantage points with minimal light pollution. This rare event requires optical aids to view all planets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stargazers will have an incredible opportunity to look for six planets in Earth\u2019s solar system on June 3. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will appear, from some dark, weather-free vantage points on Earth, to form a more-or-less straight line in the night sky \u2013 but it\u2019ll take some optical assistance to see them all.<\/p>\n<p>The alignment is a bit of an illusion, astronomers are quick to point out, given the widely varying elliptical path of each planet\u2019s orbit around the Sun. But the uncommon arrangement could prove captivating indeed \u2013 if local weather does not interfere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, an alignment of six planets\u2014Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune \u2014will be visible shortly before sunrise from dark, high vantage points with minimal light pollution. This rare event requires optical aids to view all planets. Stargazers will have an incredible opportunity to look for six planets in Earth\u2019s solar system on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}