On Tuesday, March 28, you'll be able to see something that won't happen again for 17 years.
“You get to see pretty much the whole solar system in one night,” says Rory Bentley, UCLA astronomer and avid stargazer.
Usually, the planets are spread across the sky, visible at different times of the night . They’re technically always in some version of a line—all our solar system’s planets appear on the , an invisible arc across the sky tracing the plane where everything orbits the sun. If the planets are close enough together, though, they appear to be in an almost straight line.That’s precisely what’s happening on March 28. The five planets will come within 50 degrees of each other, a tight bunch compared to their usual spread, giving stargazers of all ages an opportunity to meet our planetary neighbors.A simulation of what you might see looking west from Los Angeles at approximately 7:30 p.
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