All the planets, from Mercury out to Neptune, round it on about the same plane. All of the planets, as well as the sun and moon, appear to travel along this path in the sky.
Mars At Brightest Since 2022 Currently rising in the east as the sun sets in the west is Mars, which on Jan. 12 reached “opposition”
When Earth is precisely positioned between it and the sun. Visible underneath Jupiter, the red planet appears golden-reddish to the unaided.
Eye and is now closer to Earth than it has been since late 2022 and until early 2027. The “Wolf Moon,” the year’s first full moon, powerfully occulted Mars on January 13 by passing.
Over to conceal the red planet from view from North America for almost an hour. The distance between Mars and the moon was around 266 times greater. Tangent