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Here are some of this month’s highlights. As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky.

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will ... and the eighth if you look down (that will be Earth, under your feet). Sorry to Pluto, but it got booted ...

As much as I love throwing myself into the depths of ravines on a desperate hunt for diamonds, or trekking to the Nether and immediately plunging into lava, sometimes I think Minecraft needs to ...

Meanwhile, Mars is at "opposition" this month. That's when a planet and the sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. This celestial event happens about every two years for the ...

Such an event is commonly known as a "planet parade," though NASA noted that ... visible at the same time from Earth, making it look like they are lined up in a sort of 'parade' across the sky." ...

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle. According to NASA, this is around the time when the planet is closest to Earth, making it ...