Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

Six planets are about to stack up in the evening sky in a rare alignment that will briefly turn the western horizon into a live solar system diagram. For a short window after sunset, Mercury, Venus, ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

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That will be a partial solar eclipse where the moon will block 70% of the sun from view. A rare planetary parade will march across the sky on Saturday, Feb. 28, according to NASA. Venus, Mercury, ...

Stargazers across Washington state are in for a treat.

In just some of many celestial highlights of August 2025, stargazers peeped a "planet parade" and caught a rare Venus and Jupiter conjunction, with plenty more dazzling displays in the night sky to ...