Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

A rare celestial event is set to captivate skywatchers in January 2025, when six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will be visible together in the night sky. On January 21, these planets will align in a formation known as a planetary parade,

While the planets will be visible throughout the month, the best time to view the planet parade will be between Jan. 21 and Feb. 21, per CNET. While seeing the planets in the evening sky isn't a rare sighting," NASA says it's less common "seeing four or even five bright planets at once, which doesn't happen every year."

While it is common to see a few planets in the sky at once, there are bigger planetary alignments to be seen in January 2025, and here's when you can see them.

You won't see a majestic line of planets on Jan. 25 the way people on social media promise, but you will see four bright planets starting Jan. 16.

However, while no such events took place on that date, nor on his revised date of Dec. 25, 1919, the seeds of anxiety and fear of planetary alignments were already planted in the collective human psyche, only to sprout again and again in the decades that followed.

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that the next won’t happen until 2040.

On Friday 17 January and Saturday 18 January, six planets will line up in the night sky, in an event that some astronomers refer to as a planetary parade. Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus will appear together in a row, although Neptune and Uranus will only be visible with binoculars or a telescope.

Many of us have seen one, two, or even three planets in the sky at once, but seeing up to six line up in formation is a rare event. Dust off the blankets and fill up your mugs bec

In early 2025, the night sky will offer an exceptional astronomical event. Six planets will be visible starting January 21, followed by an even more impressive alignment of all seven other planets