New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- Skygazers will have the opportunity to see not one, not two, but six planets in the evening sky on Saturday, February 28, said NASA. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter will appear shortly after sunset.

This planetary parade occurs due to the alignment of the planets' orbits around the sun, Heidi Haviland, a planetary scientist at NASA, told CNN in an email.

Haviland noted that this celestial event is a reminder of how planets orbit the Sun and how their positions relative to Earth vary.

The peak of this 6-planet alignment will occur on Saturday, 28 February 2026, though the planets will remain in a relatively tight formation throughout the first week of March.

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