Planetary Alignment

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When Planets Parade: 5 planets to align in ‘Starwalk Phenomenon’ next week, here’s how to watch
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When Planets Parade: 5 planets to align in ‘Starwalk Phenomenon’ next week, here’s how to watch

Next week we will get to see one of the rarest cosmic events to ever happen, a rare planetary alignment Five planets, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars are set to perfectly align at the same time with the moon in an event called a planetary parade.

NASA's Lucy mission involves some wicked zig-zagging to Jupiter's asteroid fields
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NASA's Lucy mission involves some wicked zig-zagging to Jupiter's asteroid fields

Lucy will be the first spacecraft to bag as many as 6 flybys & 4 gravity assists in a single mission.