Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo on Nostr: I just wanna say that we've had between 4 and 5 planets visible to the naked eye at ...

I just wanna say that we've had between 4 and 5 planets visible to the naked eye at the same time every year since before Covid.

Saturn and Jupiter don't move that fast relative to each other because they're really far from the Sun, and the inner planets move fast enough that they Line up* with those two at least once a year.

*Line Up is silly because they're always in a line. They all orbit the same Sun, they all move in the same direction, and their orbital planes are all pretty closely match so they can only ever be "aligned". Ask the astrologers: Planets are always in some starsign or other. The signs of the zodiac were chosen, and defined, because they're the 12 constellations that marked the ecliptic (the imaginary track across the sky that the Sun and planets move through, day after day, year after year, round and round and round).

But we will continue to see talk about planetary alignments, just like we'll see talk about supermoons and blood moons, for one simple reason: Some astrologer got famous, and invented new words for boring old things to sell a book.

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