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A Rare Cosmic Event: Four Planets Aligning in the Sky This Month, Visible to Millions
A parade of planets is coming this January, but if you miss it, you can catch it in later months. Six planets in our solar ...
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Planet Mercury
How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by temperatures of around 430°C, hot enough to melt lead. Without a substantial atmosphere to distribute heat away from the areas facing the ...
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Four planets will align tonight during a rare celestial spectacle, here's how to see them
In January, stargazers will be able to see four bright planets, the close dance of Venus and Saturn, Mars at opposition, and ...
Planet Parade 2025: Which planets are aligning in January and February? Fascinating facts about them
From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...
Stunning ‘Planet Parade’ Visible In Night Sky This Week — How To See It
Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are all visible after sunset, but social media claims about it being a rare "planetary ...
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Mercury redux
Space missions to the outer planets have revealed global magnetism ... Mercury have driving forces that scale similarly, Mercury's slow rotation (its sidereal day is 58.6 Earth days) means that ...
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See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft
A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...
5 planets, moon to align in straight line tonight
Moon along with Mercury; Earth's neighbours Venus and Mars; Jupiter and Saturn will align in a straight line and will be ...
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Which way does Earth spin? What about the other planets?
"To look at the direction of the rotation, we always compare it ... Earth and most of the other planets — including Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — also spin counterclockwise ...