Parade Of Planets 2024: Know All About The Planetary Alignment Happening In June

On the third day of the upcoming month, i.e., June 3, 2024, a planetary alignment of six planets will be visible in the night sky from Earth. You will be able to witness a rare astronomical phenomenon on this day. Scroll down to read all about it.

According to the reports, the planets, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, will align in the sky early Monday morning, June 3rd, 2024.

What Is Planetary Alignment?

According to Kate Pattle, a lecturer at University College London's Physics & Astronomy Department in conversation with Glamour UK, “A planetary alignment is an astronomical event that happens when, by coincidence, the orbits of several of the planets of the Solar System bring them to roughly the same side of the Sun at the same time,” reported HT.

As per the report, Kate explained “This means that they appear in a line on the sky when we view them from the Earth. In this case, the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune and Saturn will form a line across the sky, in that order.”

“It’s important to emphasise that the planets aren’t forming a straight line in space – that’s a much rarer astronomical event called a syzygy,” she says. "However, because all the planets – including the Earth – orbit around the Sun in roughly the same orientation (moving in which we call the “Plane of the Ecliptic”), when they’re on the same side of the Sun as each other, they appear to form a line in the sky when we view them from Earth,” the report read.

The “parade of planets” or “planetary alignment” is basically the planets being in a true orbital alignment meaning that the planets will align visually in the sky. You can grab one of the best opportunities to see Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all at once in the sky as a result of this planetary alignment.