Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire] It is the culmination of an impressive display throughout January and February, when six planets have been lining up in the night sky.
Uranus will be in the same patch of sky as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter but likely won’t be bright enough to be visible without observational equipment.
‘Alignments of six or more planets happen approximately every few decades, depending on the specific orbital positions of the planets.
‘Planetary alignments occur because the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun within roughly the same plane, known as the ecliptic plane.
Planetary alignments, where multiple planets appear close together in the sky, occur periodically but are relatively rare.
