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‘PEARLS ON A NECKLACE’

Look Up in the Sky on Tuesday Night to See 5 Planets

It’s a phenomenon that only happens every few years.

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Tuesday night will be the best opportunity to see five planets lined up in the sky with the naked eye. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus should be visible even in areas with light pollution just after sunset—“kind of like pearls on a necklace,” Cameron Hummels, a computational astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology, told CNN. The phenomenon, called a planetary parade, only happens every few years.

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