March planetary alignment: How and when to see it
A planetary alignment is reportedly slated for the end of the month.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus – and our moon – will be visible in the night sky on Tuesday, March 28.
“Don’t forget to look to the sky the end of the month for the planetary alignment which will have at least five planets – plus the moon – all visible in almost an arc shape as seen from Earth,” a former Apollo astronaut tweeted earlier this month.
Speaking with “Good Morning America” this week. NASA’s Bill Cooke, who leads the agency’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, said that the crescent moon is the “capper,” and will be halfway lit up just above Mars.
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