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However, on Friday, Feb. 28, Mercury joins the sky soup, making for a cool seven and upgrading the night sky scene to a great alignment. The last time there was a seven-planet parade was in June 2022.

Uranus reappears in the morning sky before dawn. We’ll start in the evening soon after sunset on June 1. You can spot Jupiter hanging low in the western sky.

“The sky is really beautiful in winter,” he said. “It’s a great time to go out and do some stargazing.” Katrina Miller is a science reporter for The Times based in Chicago.

Skywatchers who plan to rise early and step outside on June 3 expecting to see a stunning display of visible planets will be quite disappointed, at the very least.

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But for months at a time Betelgeuse was effectively invisible, too close to the sun in the sky to be seen through the glare, and astronomers lost lots of valuable observing time.

Neptune is still close to the Sun and not visible early in the month. By the end of April, the magnitude 5.8 ice giant is 5° high in the east an hour before sunrise, very challenging to view.