In February, Earth's inhabitants will be able to see six planets of the Solar system.

In February, Earth's inhabitants will be able to observe all the planets of the Solar system, except Mars. Vladilen Sanakoev, an engineer at the Ural Federal University's Astronomical Observatory, told TASS on February 1.

"Low above the horizon, you can see the bright planet Venus, just above and to the south in the sky you can see successively: Mercury, Moon, Saturn and Neptune (Neptune is visible only through a telescope)," said the scientist.

He added that at the end of February, by looking at the sky, it will be possible to see all the planets of the Solar system, with the exception of Mars. The moon will be visible in the evening sky after February 18. In addition, an annular solar eclipse will be observed in Antarctica on February 17.

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Oleg Ugolnikov, a scientist at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told on January 21 what a diamond-shaped parade of planets is. According to him, this is a phenomenon in which the planets of the Solar system may at some point appear in one area of the sky.

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