Kicking off June with a cosmic showstopper, a five-planet parade has already begun gracing the morning sky and will continue to greet early risers for the rest of the month.
A rare gathering of several visible planets, which we’ve been enjoying in the predawn heavens for the last few months — including several close conjunctions — has now started spacing out. The result? A lineup of all five “naked-eye planets” of our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, in that order. Coincidentally, that’s their natural order from the sun, making the already-rare spectacle even more extraordinary. The celestial series stretches from low in the eastern horizon to higher in the south….