On the evening(after sunset) of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in a neat row – a magnificent sky feast for the eyes known as a great planetary alignment.
It’s not uncommon for a few planets to be on the same side of the Sun at the same time, but it’s less common for most, or even all of the planets to align like this.
Any number of planets from three to eight constitutes an alignment. Five or six planets assembling is known as a large alignment, with five-planet alignments significantly more frequent than six.
Seven-planet great alignments are, of course, the rarest of all.
How to watch
Whether you will be able to see the alignments, at what time the planets rise and set, and in which order, depends on where in the world you’re viewing from.
There are tools you can access to get those times and sky locations.
Time and Date has an interactive tool that allows you to set the date you want to view, showing the rise and set times for each planet, where in the sky they can be seen, and how difficult they will be to see.
Stellarium has a similar web tool that shows you the positions of all the planets.
Sky Tonight is a free mobile app that uses your phone’s hardware to gauge where you are located, and shows you real-time positions of celestial objects on a map of the sky above. There is a good list of other options here, too.
You will need some binoculars or a telescope to see the planets in all their glory, so if you haven’t already, start planning now. And keep your fingers crossed for clear skies!
Meanwhile, Here's a short video Of Carenna ( youngest grand daughter ) riding a camel in Morocco, the other day with her college friends from Paris, France
Lastly, here the latest news about Alzheimer's research from CNN(2-27-25)
Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly widespread, affecting more
than 55 million people worldwide — a figure that’s expected to nearly triple
by 2050.Despite the disease’s prevalence, few know the history of research
on Alzheimer’s and the role played by an important yet long-overlooked
figure: Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, the first Black psychiatrist and
neurologist in the United States. Fuller’s work “not only advanced the
understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, but also exemplified how diverse
backgrounds and perspectives in medical research can drive scientific
progress and improve patient care across different communities,” said
Dr. Chantale Branson, associate professor of neurology at the Morehouse
School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Fuller was born on August 11, 1872, in Monrovia, Liberia, to Solomon
Fuller, a coffee planter and local government official, and Anna Ursula
James. His paternal grandparents were formerly enslaved in Virginia
before they bought their freedom and then immigrated to Liberia in 1852.
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