{"id":4229,"date":"2025-01-19T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:08:36","slug":"what-is-planet-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-planet-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Planet Parade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Planet Parade:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It refers to a situation when <strong>several planets<\/strong> in our solar system are <strong>visible in the night sky<\/strong>, at the same time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This planetary meet-up, also <strong>known as a conjunction<\/strong>, makes the two planets appear close together or even touch in the Earth&#8217;s night sky.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This phenomenon is more an illusion of perspective rather than the planets being in a perfect line in space.<\/li>\n<li>Planets have different motions in the sky. They move at different rates compared to the other stars.<\/li>\n<li>Not all of them are visible in the sky everyday, but sometimes a position comes about so that many or all the planets are visible at the same time, or within a few hours of each other.<\/li>\n<li>According to NASA, such events, especially those involving four or more planets, are noteworthy and <strong>do not occur annually.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: When to see the parade of planets?<\/h3>\n<p>Planetary alignment is a term used in astronomy to describe the event when several planets gather in a small sky area. This event may also be colloquially called a \u201cplanetary parade.\u201d The next alignment of six planets is on January 21, 2025; the next alignment of seven planets will take place on February 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/ongoing-planet-parade-rare-9783955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is the ongoing \u2018planet parade\u2019 rare?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Parade refers to a situation when several planets in our solar system are visible in the night sky, at the same time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}