Here’s Everything You Need To Know About The Rare 7 Planet Parade

There will be an amazing parade this weekend, and we’re not talking about Mardi Gras. Instead, seven planets will line up for a “planetary parade” visible from Earth. People will be able to view the planets with the naked eye. A good telescope will make the production even more incredible, Space.com shared. Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project will livestream a telescopic view of all seven planets in marching order. The planetary parade can be viewed on WebTV or YouTube.

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Space.com reported the next time planets will line up in this type of planetary parade will be in 2040.

“We will see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, plus the Moon at a glance. Such a parade happens from time to time, and we wish to share this event with our friends around the world. This distribution of the planets across the sky comes from the fact that their orbits lie on planes not too much different from the one hosting the orbit of our Earth,” Masi explained in a statement.

He added, “On 28 February 2025, we will host a special live feed, covering such a parade. We will observe all the seven planets plus the Moon, showing them in real-time thanks to our robotic telescopes in Manciano, in the wonderful landscape of the Maremma in Tuscany, under the darkest skies of the Italian peninsula.”

Andrew McCarthy posted on X about a past planetary parade, and the photos are amazing. He wrote, “I captured the entire “Planetary Parade” using my 11″ telescope, and combined everything into one composite photo that stayed true to the angular scale of these objects. Made entirely with real photos, I hope this composite helps illustrate the scale of these things!”

This story’s featured image is by buradaki via Shutterstock.