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This is an archive article published on May 12, 2011
From today,4 planets to align in dawn sky
Four planets Venus,Jupiter,Mercury and Mars will be visible to the naked eye in the pre-dawn sky,offering a visual treat to skygazers,for a month beginning Thursday.
Written by Press Trust Of India
New Delhi | May 12, 2011 05:07 AM IST
1 min readFour planets Venus,Jupiter,Mercury and Mars will be visible to the naked eye in the pre-dawn sky,offering a visual treat to skygazers,for a month beginning Thursday.
The quartet can be seen easily with naked eyes as they form spectacular shapes,N Sri Raghunandan Kumar,General Secretary of Planetary Society Of India said. The planetary parade bunched together can be seen low in the sky to the east.
Venus and Jupiter will appear close to each other on Thursday night as the two planets are in conjunction,he said.
The two will be seen shining through the eastern twilight only half a degree apart,he said.
Mercury is also in conjunction with Jupiter. Saturn will be the lone planet that can be seen in the evening sky,he added.
Conjunction,a term used in positional astronomy,means two celestial bodies appearing close to one another in the sky as seen from the Earth. The event is also sometimes known as an appulse.
On May 30,the crescent-shaped moon will join the planetary party.
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