“Five planets are arrayed across the evening sky in a spectacular night show that won’t be back for another three decades.

For the next two weeks, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — the five closest planets — should be easily visible at dusk, along with the moon.

‘It’s semi-unique,’ said Myles Standish, an astronomer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. ‘They’re all on the same side of the sun and stretched across the sky and that’s what is kind of pretty’…

Stargazers should look to the western horizon just after sunset. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn will be lined up in the sky with Jupiter close to the eastern horizon. They will span about 135 degrees. Saturn will be almost directly overhead.” —Houston Chronicle [via dangerousmeta]