This week in Astro News: More on the exciting, new five planet alignment The big planetary line-up that will make May so special is well under way, and you will be able to watch the planets getting closer to each other day by day. If you are still not sure which planet is which, then have a look tonight, when the moon will help you get your bearings. You need to be out at about 9pm, when the sun has gone down. Find the moon, and then draw an imaginary line from the moon downwards and to the right, to where the sun set earlier. Just below the moon and to the right is Jupiter, bright and easy to see. Down at the bottom of the line, near the horizon, is Venus, even brighter. In the middle, and almost exactly west, are two dimmer, reddish stars with a little cluster of white stars next to them. The red object on the left is Aldebaran, the Eye of the Bull; the other one is Mars. Just above Aldebaran is a small dull grey ‘star’. This is Saturn. If you look again each day at about the same time or a little later, you’ll see things in more or less the same places, but with Venus and Mars creeping closer to Saturn each time. It’s Romeo and Juliet in the skies. As Venus and Mars grow closer, their love becomes stronger - but we can see that sooner or later they will have to meet Saturn, which is a bit like coming home late and having to tell your parents where you have been. Watch the story develop over the next three weeks. Mars and Aldebaran sit side by side at the moment, which makes them easy to spot. Times when these two red lights were together were seen by ancient writers as needing extra care; at moments like this, glory and grief are too close to each other for comfort. We should expect the usual international hotspots to flare up yet again - but in a few days, when Mars has moved on, the situation should settle.
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