Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools on four islands.
24.01.2025 - 22:05 / cntraveler.com
If you’re on the Internet, you’ve likely seen an Instagram or TikTok claiming that on January 25, 2025, the seven planets in our solar system will perfectly align in the night sky. And if you’re on my side of the internet, you’ve also probably received an astrological reading dubbing the phenomenon a “massive energy shift” that will help you realign with your soul’s purpose.
These grandiose predictions are—at least scientifically—untrue, according to the experts at NASA. However, the good news is that the end of January and early February will provide some pretty exceptional planetary viewing.
“All month after dark, you’ll find Venus and Saturn in the southwest for the first couple of hours, while Jupiter shines brightly high overhead, and Mars rises in the east. Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don’t appear as ‘bright planets’ [meaning you need a telescope or binoculars to see them],” NASA’s public engagement specialist Preston Dyches explains in the agency’s January skywatching tips. “These multi-planet viewing opportunities aren’t super rare, but they don’t happen every year, so it’s worth checking it out.”
NASA goes on to explain that events like these are sometimes called “alignments” because the planets appear in an arc across the night sky. But from Earth, the planets always look like this because they all orbit around the sun on roughly the same ecliptic plane. As we all learned in Interstellar, that’s just our two-dimensional perception of three-dimensional movement (I’ll leave it to our professional astrologer Stef to guide you through any dimensions above that).
But while the planets in our solar system may share the same plane, they each orbit at different speeds—meaning every once and while, they cluster together on the same side of the sun for our viewing pleasure.
“Planets always appear along a line in the sky, so the “alignment” isn’t special,” Dyches notes. “What’s less common is seeing four or five bright planets at once, which doesn’t happen every year.”
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So what planets will you be able to see in January 2025? Let’s break it down.
Four “bright planets” will be visible to the naked eye through the end of January, appearing in the first couple of hours after dark: Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. Uranus and Neptune will also be up there, but you won't be able to see them without binoculars or a telescope. That makes six planets in total, and together they form a rare “planetary parade.”
Start by finding Venus shortly after sunset in the southwestern sky. It’s considered the brightest planet in our solar system (earning it the nickname “the evening star”), so it’ll be easiest to pinpoint. Then look
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