An unusual parade of six planets is preparing to show. The protagonists are Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Nettunoclearly visible starting today. It is a full -blown planetary parade, very different from the alignment of planets which is erroneously talked about on the web and will go on for several weeks and will be completed by Mercury.
If Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars They can be comfortably observable to the naked eye also from cities, weather permitting, “a modest binoculars will allow you to see too Uranus and Neptunethe last and most distant members of the planetary family of the sun, “says the astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, scientific manager of Virtual Telescope Project.
Unlike what many on the web, the planets are not arranged on their orbits one after the other, as if, seen by the sun or by the earth, they were all visible in the same direction and concentrated in the same corner of heaven. On the contrary, they find themselves somewhat scattered around our star, so much so that they were distributed on a very extensive portion of heaven. The Virtual Telescope Project He will show this planetary parade live on January 25, through his instruments installed in Manciano, near Grosseto, under the purest sky from the light pollution of peninsular Italy.