Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers with special equipment.
As of earlier this week, four planets are visible to the naked eye in the evening sky, and they'll remain visible through mid-February. The planets include Venus, Jupiter,Saturn and Mars.
This week we continue to see the planets shuffle their way into our early evening night sky, with a Jupiter-Moon conjunction starting off a week that also sees a very bright Saturn become visible ...
as well as soaring about as high into the western evening sky as it ever does, especially early in the month. In its own right, Jupiter is itself quite dazzling, although compared to Venus it ...