Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Jan 22. - The planetary alignment of Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn constitutes a common astronomical event, but still, unmissable.
According to specialized sites, the brightest planets, such as Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn, can be observed with the naked eye, while telescopes will be needed to see Uranus and Neptune due to their dim luminosity.
The phenomenon can be observed from all over the world and will last for several days after that date.
Planetary "alignment" is actually a perspective effect and does not mean that the planets are perfectly aligned in space, but rather that a visible arrangement of bright planets is visible in the night sky.
According to astronomers, it is a constant event, since all the planets in the solar system orbit around the Sun in trajectories called orbits, which have small inclinations, but not so much that they move too far away from the same line in the sky.
The imaginary line in the sky is called the ecliptic and it arises because the Earth also orbits around the Sun in a plane, and we project that plane onto the sky as a reference.
Based on this statement, from our position on Earth, it seems that the planets are placed in a row or close to the ecliptic, although in reality each one is in its own orbit and at different distances from the Sun.
That is, they are not really aligned, but rather the position from the Earth creates this illusion of order, since in reality, the planets always follow trajectories close to the ecliptic, so technically there is nothing unusual in their apparent position. (Text and Photo: PL)
