A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.
Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...
For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...