Brian Lair on WNYC and for our last little bit today, you've heard of getting your ducks in a row,

which evidently comes from the game of pool and not the birds.

But for the next couple of nights, we have our planets all in a row.

All seven planets, sorry Pluto, appear in a line in the sky, and you can spot, if the clouds break,

five of them without a telescope.

To explain what's going on, how and when to look up, and just how rare this is.

We're joined once again by Jackie Faradie, an astrophysicist and educator at the American

Museum of Natural History. And listeners will invite you in, too, any astronomers, amateur

or professional who are excited for this parade of planets or have already checked it out,

call or text us, your solar system glee.

Or if you have suggestions for where to view the planetary parade, 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433,

9692, call or text.

I guess if any astrologers want to weigh in on this, it has significance

to you, you can too. But welcome back to the show, astrophysicist Jackie Faraddy. We won't ask

your sun sign. Yeah, we're going to skip over that part. Happy to explain, lots about it, but

we're going to stick to maybe

planets today. Yeah. And how unusual is this planet parade as I think it's being called?

Yeah, the planet parade is a really nice way of saying it. It's actually not that rare or

uncommon to have this happen. And it really depends on what you're asking. So we should talk about what the phenomenon is.

The planets all go around the sun like racers on a racetrack. So if you've ever been to a track and

I go to riverbank all the time, you're going around and around and around. Other people might be going.

And some of them are going to be behind you.

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