Saturn will be the most difficult planet to spot as it lies close to the sun. Once the sun sets on Friday, February 28, go outside and look up—seven planets will align in the night sky ...

For the best chances, spectators should look at the sky as soon as the sun sets. That's when the planets will make a brief appearance. Tokyo started seeing the parade first, on Feb. 22 ...

Uranus and Neptune can only be seen with a telescope, and even then they will be hard to see due to their distance from the sun ... the horizon after 7 p.m., but the other planets will still ...

Here's everything you need to know about this week's parade of seven planets. Getty Images A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks.

When is the 7 planet alignment? Mercury to join in late February. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are frequently seen in the night sky. But because Venus and Mercury orbit closer to the sun than Earth ...

The planets orbit the sun continuously in the solar system, so at times, they slowly catch up to one another. Because they travel along the same path, or ecliptic, as they pass Earth ...